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Wade Anthony Boggs (born June 15, 1958) is an American former professional baseball third baseman. He spent 18 seasons in Major League Baseball, primarily with the Boston Red Sox.
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A 12-time All-Star third baseman, Boggs ended his 18-year (1982-99) major league career with 3,010 hits, a .328 batting average and a .415 on-base percentage. In his 2,432 career games, Boggs reached base safely in 85 percent of them.
Wade Anthony Boggs. Nickname: Chicken Man. Born: 6/15/1958 in Omaha, NE. Draft: 1976, Boston Red Sox, Round: 7, Overall Pick: 166. High School: Henry B. Plant, Tampa, FL.
Wade Anthony Boggs was a Major League Baseball player with the Boston Red Sox ( 1982 - 1992 ), New York Yankees ( 1993 - 1997 ), and Tampa Bay Devil Rays ( 1998 - 1999 ).
Aug 7, 1999 · The August 6 game against the Cleveland Indians, Boggs’ first chance to reach 3,000 hits, drew just under 33,000 fans, the Devil Rays’ third biggest crowd of the season to date. But Boggs failed to get a hit, so he entered the game on August 7 still three hits shy of the milestone.
Jul 11, 2023 · ST. PETERSBURG, FL: Baseball Hall of Famer and former Tampa Bay Rays star Wade Boggs is inducted ... [+] Icon Sportswire via Getty Images. When Wade Boggs took the field to warm up, he looked...
Jul 9, 2023 · He became the first Devil Rays player to reach 3,000 hits, and the first Major League player to ever reach that historic mark with a home run. In 2005, he became the first player from the Tampa Bay area to be inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame -- as a first-ballot selection, no less.
Wade Anthony Boggs (born June 15, 1958) is an American former professional baseball third baseman. He spent his 18-year baseball career primarily with the Boston Red Sox, but also played for the New York Yankees, with whom he won the 1996 World Series against the Atlanta Braves, and the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, with whom he reached 3,000 hits.
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