Throughout his two decades in Major League Baseball, Russell Nua has worked closely with some of the sport’s biggest stars, treating figures like the long and lanky Randy Johnson to the aptly nicknamed David Ortiz. It doesn't take a certain body type to succeed in baseball, a fact Nua knows first-hand. A life of healing has made him comfortable with all of them.
The six-foot, 215-pound Hawaiian of Samoan descent says he was one of the first, if not the very first, full-time massage therapists in MLB, joining the Arizona Diamondbacks in the early 2000s. Now with the Red Sox, he is undoubtedly the winningest in the industry, claiming five World Series in the last 20 years between his stints in Arizona and Boston.