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Everyone has a dream or goal they want to achieve one day. David Ortiz once said, "My mom, she's still always there for me. Always". David Ortiz said this because his mom, Angela Rosa Arias, died at the age of forty six in January 2002. David Ortiz is a baseball player who plays for the Boston Red Sox. he is six feet five inches and two hundred and thirty pounds. two hundred pounds of him is all muscle and power. I'm going to talk about three things from his life when he was a child, his baseball life and his personal life. this passage is going to be about how he became a baseball player and what he went through to become the great baseball player he is now.

David Ortiz was born on November 18th 1975 at Santo Domingo. He was the eldest of the four children and the most calm and easy going person in his whole family. David Ortiz wanted to play baseball ever since he was little. He went to school at Estudia Eapallat high school where he good enough to play high school baseball. His father played baseball in Dominican pro and semipro leagues. He was the person who inspired David Ortiz to play the game of baseball and to honer this extraordinary game. David was a strong athlete and a natural slugger when it comes to the game of baseball. He became a U.S citizen on June 11th 2008 at John F. Kennedy in Boston That is where he decided to join a baseball team.(Davidortizbio)

David Ortiz has hit the baseball and got on base two thousand three hundred and five times in 2015. That is one of the greatest records ever in my opinion. He also hit five hundred and four home runs in 2015. his most recent salary is twelve point five million dollars a year but he also gets an extra five million dollars a year. He has hit one thousand six hundred and forty three RBI's. An RBI stands for runner batted in. When he hits a home run, he points both pointer fingers up to the sky. He does this in memory of his mother, Angela Rosa Arias, who died at the age of forty six in a car crash on January 2002. He is a left handed when it comes to hitting and throwing a baseball. This is one of the reasons I like him, because he is a lefty thrower like me. (Jockbio).

He got the last winning out for the New York Giants. A foul ball hit 150 feet up. He was playing third base when he caught the ball. This was during the 2013 world series against the Kansas City Royals. Davids Ortiz's average is over three hundred out of one thousand. This means that out of ten strikes during a game, he will hit and get on base three times. This is not bad at all. If you are batting over three hundred, that is a good thing. David Ortiz was born to be a baseball player and make it to the majors. He is now known as one of the world greatest hitters of all time.(DavidOrtiz)

David Ortiz inspired me to play the game of baseball. When I first saw how good of a hitter he was, I new that is what God wanted me to be when I grow up. I new it wasn't going to be easy to get to where he is right now. I new I had to do good in school and always treat baseball like school. I also new that whenever I make a mistake, I had to make a promise to myself to never give up. I need to take that mistake and throw it in the garbage. If anyone can do this about any sport, you can always have fun on the field. David Ortiz never got mad at himself for making errors on the field. If he did, he would throw that error in the trash and make up for it the next time a ball was hit to him. When you play the game of baseball, you always have to remember that baseball is a game of failure.


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