1. Big Papi
Big Papi on the name Big Papi /> “I’m not really sure how it started, bro. I have no idea. After I started playing for the Red Sox, I would walk around the clubhouse and talk to guys, and I started calling them papi. In the Dominican Republic, we use the word all the time, like Americans would use buddy or pal. In Boston, before we knew it, everybody on the team was calling everyone else papi, and it wasn’t too long before the name somehow belonged to me. David Ortiz. Big Papi. Wherever I go now, bro, that’s what people call me.”—David Ortiz in Boston Magazine, April 2007, p. 95.
(Submitted by Johnny Coma [20], 30-Apr-2007 12:47 AM)
