Big Papi’s tenure in Boston saw him do just about everything there is to do in the game of baseball. Leading the Red Sox to three World Series titles over a ten-year span, David Ortiz has been as important to this franchise as just about anyone.
He was the key figure in ending the 86-year drought for a championship from this ball club and has helped carry them to a new level throughout the last two decades. Number 34’s fourteen seasons at Fenway will lie up there with the best in the team’s history. The fact that he began his career in Boston at the age of 27 makes the story all the more telling, as it’s when he came to Boston that his career in the majors really kicked off.