August 13
Boston Globe
columnist Dan Shaughnessy
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Seventeen-year-old David Arias thought he'd grow up to play with the Seattle Mariners, maybe someday hit in the same lineup with Ken Griffey Jr. The Dominican-born slugger had great power as a teenager and dreamed about crushing tape-measure shots in the Kingdome. None of that worked out, of course. The Kingdome was replaced by Safeco Field in 1999 and demolished in 2000. Griffey went home to Cincinnati to hit his 600th homer. And what about young Mr. Arias? He got traded to the Twins when he was 20, changed his name to David Ortiz, broke into the bigs in 1997, had some good years with Minnesota, got released by the Twins (2002), then came to Boston, where he became Big Papi, the Sox most"