Wade Boggs

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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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