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 * ====David Ortiz is a baseball player who plays for the Boston Red Sox. He was born on November 18th, 1975 ====
 * ====https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Ortiz ====


 * ====nicknamed "Big Papi" ====
 * ====batting average is 284 (2015) ====
 * ====He has 2,305 hits (2015) ====
 * ====504 home runs (2015) ====
 * ====1,643 runs batted in(2015) ====
 * ====when David hits a home run, he points his fingers up at the sky. He does this because his mother, Angela Rosa Arias, who died at 46 in a car crash in January 2002. ====
 * ====David became a U.S citizen on June 11th 2008 at John F. Kennedy in Boston. ====
 * ====In October 2009, Ortiz opened a night club called "Forty-Forty" in his native Dominican Republic. ====

http://www.jockbio.com/Bios/Ortiz/Ortiz_facts.html
 * ====David learned to love baseball as much as his dad did ====
 * ====He was a strong athlete and was a natural slugger ====
 * ====Early in his minor league career, David logged several games at third base. ====
 * David recorded his first big-league hit—a double off Mark Pisciotta of the Chicago Cubs—on September 3, 1997. His first homer came 11 days later in Texas against Julio Santana
 * David hit first career grand slam in September of 2000 in Boston off Ramon Martinez— a player he had rooted for as a teenager.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In 2005, David hit 43 home runs as a DH, setting a new record. He broke his own mark the following season.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">David hit 32 road homers in 2006 to tie Babe Ruth’s league record.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">David raised his home run total in each of his first seven seasons.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">David’s 1,000th hit was a homer off of Kansas City’s Jimmy Gobble

http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/david-ortiz-3747.php

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 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">In 1992, he was signed on by the Seattle Mariners and he played for them until 1996
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">ortiz hit his 300th career home run against in 2009 and finished the season with 28 home runs and 99 RBIs
 * In 2010, Ortiz won the Home Run Derby contest at the All-Star Game
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">In 2008, Ortiz could not play as many matches because of a wrist injury.