{"id":24735,"date":"2022-07-25T04:08:43","date_gmt":"2022-07-25T04:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/david-ortiz-and-buck-oneil-headline-hall-of-fame-class-of-2022\/"},"modified":"2022-07-25T04:08:43","modified_gmt":"2022-07-25T04:08:43","slug":"david-ortiz-and-buck-oneil-headline-hall-of-fame-class-of-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/david-ortiz-and-buck-oneil-headline-hall-of-fame-class-of-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"David Ortiz and Buck O’Neil Headline Hall of Fame Class of 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Rivera was a guest at Ortiz’s party here on Saturday night, as was another former Yankee rival, his Fox Sports colleague Alex Rodriguez. Several of Ortiz’s former teammates also came to town, including Johnny Damon, LaTroy Hawkins, Mike Lowell, Trot Nixon, Dustin Pedroia, Tim Wakefield, Kevin Youkilis and Pedro Martinez, a fellow Hall of Famer from the Dominican Republic.<\/p>\n

Many fans waved Dominican flags for Ortiz, who pitched for his homeland in his speech \u2014 \u201cWe have a lot of good and happy people, beautiful beaches where you guys can go when you are freezing here,\u201d he said. Ortiz’s daughter, Alex, sang the United States ‘national anthem before the ceremony, and Ortiz spoke in his speech about his mother, Angela Rosa, who died in 2002.<\/p>\n

\u201cGoing through this speech and putting it together, I cried a lot, to be honest with you, even this morning, every time I touched base about my mom,\u201d Ortiz said. \u201cIt just got to the point, repeating over and over and over, it kind of cured it a little.\u201d<\/p>\n

For Ortiz, the honor was exquisitely timed. He was shot in the back in the Dominican Republic in 2019, and it is chilling to think of how close he came to missing his own ceremony. Instead, he is healthy and strong \u2014 the full Big Papi on the biggest day of all.<\/p>\n

\u201cThank God I’m good to go, I don’t have any injuries, I’m back to normal,\u201d Ortiz said later. \u201cI always appreciate that and thank God for everything.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rivera was a guest at Ortiz’s party here on Saturday night, as was another former Yankee rival, his Fox Sports colleague Alex Rodriguez. Several of Ortiz’s former teammates also came to town, including Johnny Damon, LaTroy Hawkins, Mike Lowell, Trot Nixon, Dustin Pedroia, Tim Wakefield, Kevin Youkilis and Pedro Martinez, a fellow Hall of Famer …<\/p>\n

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