Papi by David Ortiz

Author:David Ortiz
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

If Tampa’s future looked good, so did ours. I liked the youth we had, and unlike Tampa, we had the ability to spend to fill some of our holes. I had obviously been happier, as a baseball player, in October 2007 than I was in October 2008. My life, though, was never supposed to be about baseball and nothing else.

After taking a year off to better plan the Children’s Fund, I removed a couple of training wheels and we became a 501(c)(3) in 2008. We got a board of directors. We also put on our first celebrity golf classic in the Dominican. My friend and teammate Sean Casey was our emcee. It was attended by some of the biggest names in sports, past and present: Bobby Orr, John Havlicek, Mariano Rivera, Luis Tiant, Jimmy Rollins, Torii Hunter, Jim Rice.

I was humbled and optimistic. These great athletes had taken the time to come to Punta Cana to support something that was so important to me. I enjoyed the beautiful Dominican weather with them, the golf, the food, and their conversations and smiles. We’d done all that while raising money to help those who truly needed it. It was hard to grasp that this was happening to me. Just over 100 miles down the road from Punta Cana, not that long ago, I had been one of those poor kids, never thinking that Hall of Famers would be coming to the Dominican for me.

It was a fulfilling time in my life, and as a positive thinker, I had no reason to believe that it would soon become a nightmare. I absolutely did not think like that. But the nightmare happened anyway.

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