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One (Big) Reason David Ortiz Will Always Be *The Man*

David Ortiz was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame on Sunday.

Before Big Papi's big day, everyone was asking him about his speech.

My agent, everybody was asking me about the speech, and this and that, like I've never talked before. I'm like, "All I'm going to talk about is what I know. Relax." It was fine. It was good that I was left for last. That made it a little easier . . .

Ortiz spent the final 14 years of his 20-year career with the Red Sox. It's a bit weird to think that his first year in Boston (2003) was already his seventh major league season.