Wade Boggs

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Wade Anthony Boggs (born June 15, 1958) is an American professional baseball third baseman.

He spent his 18-year baseball career with the Boston Red Sox, but he also appeared for the New York Yankees and the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, with whom he won the 1996 World Series against the Atlanta Braves and the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, in which he earned 3,000 hits.

His success in the 1980s and 1990s made him a perennial favorite for American League batting titles.

He is 33rd on the list of career batting averages for Major League Baseball players with a minimum of 1,000 plate appearances, and has the highest ranking of those that are still alive.

Boggs was inducted into the Red Sox Hall of Fame in 2004 and 2005, as well as the Baseball Hall of Fame. Boggs is third only to Brooks Robinson and George Brett in number of consecutive appearances as a third baseman in 12 straight appearances.

In 1997, he ranked No. 95 on the Sporting News' list of the 100 Greatest Baseball Players.

Boggs, a 1976 graduate of Plant High School in Tampa, Florida, now lives in Tampa's Tampa suburbs.

Early life

Wade, the youngest of three sons of Winfield Kennedy Boggs Jr. and Sue Nell Graham, had a disciplined military upbringing from Omaha, Nebraska. Winfield and Sue met in 1946 at a military base in Georgia. Winfield served with the Marines in World War II and flew for the Air Force in the Korean War, while Sue piloted mail planes in World War II. The Boggs family lived in many places (including Puerto Rico and Savannah, Georgia) before settling in Tampa, Florida, when Wade was 11 years old. As a senior, he attended Plant High School in Tampa, where he played baseball and was an All-State football player. Boggs played quarterback until his senior year, helping to prevent injury and also protect his baseball career. He received a scholarship from the University of South Carolina because of his success as a left-footed placekicker and punter. He graduated from Plant High School in 1976 and was selected by the Boston Red Sox in the seventh round of the 1976 MLB draft on the advice of veteran scout George Digby. He has since signed with the club for $7,500.

Life outside baseball

In 1989, Boggs gained non-baseball media coverage for his four-year extramarital affair with Margo Adams, a California mortgage broker, earning him non-baseball coverage. Adams filed a $12 million lawsuit against emotional distress and breach of oral contract after Boggs ended the friendship in 1988. She argued that Boggs had verbally promised to compensate her for her lost money and services rendered when accompanying Boggs on road trips. Boggs' reputation was sullied when Adams consented to an interview with Penthouse magazine in which she discussed intimate details of her Boggs' time with the company. Boggs went on the offensive in an attempt to combat the wave of negative press, deny many of Adams' assertions. Boggs' rebuttal included an appearance on ABC program 20/20, in which he told Barbara Walters that his side of the tale was told. An appeals court dismissed $11.5 million of the first complaint in February 1989, finding that Adams did not claim compensation for emotional distress. The remaining $500,000 claim was settled out of court later this year for an undisclosed sum.

Boggs was plagued by newspaper reports that the expansion of the Devil Rays gave him financial compensation in exchange for selecting a Devil Rays cap for his plaque at the Baseball Hall of Fame, but he has denied that such condition was part of his deal. Following those claims (and other rumors that teams were offering number retirement, wealth, or other compensation for the cap designation), the Hall decided in 2001 to discontinue deferring to players' wishes regarding cap logo selection and strengthened the Hall's authority to determine which cap the player would be depicted. Boggs' plaque is on display in Boston.

While he was with the Red Sox in June 1986, Boggs' mother died in a car accident in Tampa. Boggs and his dad owned a fish camp on US 301 just south of Hawthorne, Florida; his father ran it until just before he died. Brett and Meagann, Wade and his wife Debbie, have two children.

Wade Boggs was selected as one of Men's Fitness' Top Ten Most Superstitious Athletes" for his well-known baseball habits, including his eating chicken before every game and practicing at only certain times of day. He was branded "Chicken Man" because of his chicken-eating habits.

Boggs made his professional wrestling team, the World Wrestling Federation (WWF), in 1992. Mr. Defienden appeared in a vignette with wrestler Mr. Grissom. Perfect (Curt Hennig) in which Perfect played baseball. Afterward, the two became good friends; 15 years later, in 2007, Boggs inducted the late Perfectionist into the WWE Hall of Fame. Mr. Brown's Life and Times were included in the DVD The Life and Times of Mr. Boggs was describing how Hennig saved his life by carrying Boggs to help after he had badly cut his leg while hunting along a broken barbed wire fence.

Boggs was one of the baseball players featured in the classic "Home at the Bat" in which he was recruited by Mr. Burns as a ringer for the Power Plant's softball team, only to be defeated by Barney Gumble in a bar brawl. (The portrayed contest was over whether Lord Palmerston or Pitt the Elder was England's top Prime Minister.) In the Cheers episode "Bar Wars" in which he was sent to the bar as an apology from a rival bar, Boggs appeared as himself. The regulars suspected him of being a fraud. (In 2009, Cheers writer Ken Levine announced that Boggs had promised to bring Kirstie Alley's panties back to spring training with him, but instead, he brought back his mistress Margo Adams' panties.) George convinces the Yankees to change to cotton uniforms, assuring boss Buck Showalter that the Bombers will be "five degrees cooler than the other team" in Seinfeld's "The Chaperone." Wade Boggs was quoted as saying, "I was quoted as saying."

"What a fabric!

We can finally breathe.

In 2011, he appeared in the Psych episode "Dead Man's Curveball."

Boggs guest appeared in It's Always Sunny's Season 10 premiere ("The Girl Beats Boggs") in Philadelphia, in which characters in the film attempted to drink more than 70 beers while flying around the country, emulating what Boggs once did not achieve during his career. Boggs denied that the number of beers was 64, and he reportedly told Charlie Day that he drank 107 beers in a day. Boggs is confused with Boss Hogg in an episode; another one suspects that Boggs is dead. The scene has become a popular joke among baseball fans.

Boggs served as a fill-in color commentator for several Red Sox games in Tampa Bay and broadcast on New England Sports Network (NESN), alongside play-by-play announcer Dave O'Brien.

Wade Boggs was featured in a Good Mythical Morning episode starring Rhett and Link in 2018 about his Wade Boggs.352 Bar, which was built in 1990. In 2021, he made a cameo appearance on the show.

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Minor league career

Boggs played in the longest game in professional baseball history as a member of the Pawtucket Red Sox in 1981 against Cal Ripken Jr. and the Rochester Red Wings. It lasted for 33 innings in the final eight hours and 25 minutes. At McCoy Stadium in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, the game was played from April 18-19, 1981. During his last year with Pawtucket in the minor leagues, he led the league with a.335 batting average, 167 hits, and 41 doubles.

Major league career

Boggs, a left-handed hitter, has won five batting titles since 1983. In his rookie year, he would have won the batting title, but he was 121 plate appearances short of the minimum of 502. Boggs fell below.349 just once from 1982 to 1988, peaking at.325 in 1984. Boggs went through seven seasons in which he hit 200 or more hits, an American League record for consecutive 200-hit seasons that was surpassed by Seattle's Ichiro Suzuki. Boggs has had six seasons in total, with 200 or more hits, 100+ runs, and 40+ doubles. Despite the fact that he did not win another batting title since 1988 (his batting record in the Major Leagues that year was four by a third baseman), he did not win another batting title until 1994 (his batting championship that year ended Bill Madlock's Major League record of four runs).

Boggs played 72 multi-hit games in 1985, a club record.

Boggs made it to the World Series with the Red Sox in 1986, but they lost in seven games to the New York Mets. At Fenway Park in.369. He holds the record for batting average.

Boggs saw a power surge in 1987, hitting career highs with 24 home runs, 89 RBIs, and a.588 slugging percentage. In no other season, he had half as many home runs.

Boggs dropped to.259 in 1992, one of only three times in his career he missed out on.300, and the Red Sox dropped him at the end of the season, where he had spent his entire career to that date. He was heavily pursued by two franchises, the Los Angeles Dodgers and the New York Yankees' arch-rival. When the Dodgers decided against the Yankees for the third year, they chose the Yankees. Boggs went on to win three straight All-Star appearances, had four years as a result, and received two Gold Glove Awards for his defense.

Boggs helped the Yankees win their first World Series title in 18 years against the Atlanta Braves, his first World Series victory in 1996. Boggs was recalled to pinch hit in the tenth inning in the Yankees' fourth game, with the Yankees bouncing from six runs down to tie it. He took a bases-loaded walk out of Steve Avery's home, putting in the game's comeback and ultimately winning 8–6. Despite his self-professed apprehension of horses, Boggs merrily commemorated the game's success by leaping on the back of an NYPD horse and walking the field with his index finger in the air.

Boggs joined the Tampa Bay Devil Rays for the last two seasons of his career. In the sixth inning of the inaugural game on March 31, 1998, he scored his first home run in Devil Ray history. He hit his 3,000th home run on August 7, 1999. Despite his fame for lacking home-run ability, he was the first player in history to achieve such a hit, followed by Derek Jeter on July 9, 2011 and Alex Rodriguez on June 19, 2015. Boggs retired in 1999 after suffering a knee injury, leaving with a career batting average of.328 and 3,010 hits. His last game was on August 27, 1999; he went 0-for-3 against the Cleveland Indians. Two yellow seats in the rest of Tropicana's blue seats have landed in right field, with each of them sporting it as the location where the ball landed. He was the oldest former Devil Ray after signing with the first-year expansion team, the Devil Rays, so late in his career. (This is just the time when they were called the Devil Rays at the time.) He was also the first native of the Tampa Bay area to play for the team.

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