Straight from top - Werner says major Red Sox deal possible Jul 27, 2009
Meanwhile, Werner, when told of Wade Boggs s comments Saturday that he d like to see his No. 26 number retired by the Sox, said, I think that criteria is a bit of a moving line. There was certainly nobody as deserving as Jim and we continue to talk about other players. (Boston Globe)
Hall of Fame inductees aided AL's resurgence Jul 26, 2009
But it was later, when he was a senior statesman on a team built around Wade Boggs and Roger Clemens, that the Red Sox became a power. They battled with Oakland's Bash Brothers teams, who got their energy as much from their leadoff man, Henderson, as Mark McGwire and Jose Canseco. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA -- Sports)
Boggs wades into a discussion, wants Sox to retire his number Jul 26, 2009
COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. - Wade Boggs said yesterday he s happy that Jim Rice will have his No. 14 retired by the Red Sox Tuesday at Fenway Park, but the Hall of Famer, who was inducted in a Sox cap but finished his career with the Yankees and Rays, believes his No. 26 also should be hung on the right-field facade. Good for him, said Boggs, before teeing off at the Leatherstocking Golf Course at the Otesaga Hotel as part of Hall of Fame weekend festivities. (Boston Globe)
Angels unveil 2010 All-Star Game logo Jul 24, 2009
In 1989, Bo Jackson and Wade Boggs hit back-to-back homers to lead the AL to a 5-3 win over the NL with Jackson taking home the Most Valuable Player trophy. But as DuPuy noted, plenty has changed for the Midsummer Classic as it is now a much larger event with All-Star Week and all the festivities that lead up to the All-Star Game. (MLB.com -- Anaheim Angels)
Tight-knit 'pen helps Aardsma succeed Jul 22, 2009
The last player in the Majors to have as many three-hit games over a nine-year span was Wade Boggs with 193 from 1983-1991. Chris Shelton returns to Detroit for the first time since 2006 when he played for the Tigers for parts of two seasons. (MLB.com -- Seattle Mariners)
Reps leader Harris impresses coaches, family Jul 22, 2009
He s a Wade Boggs kind of guy, hit. 300 and get his share of home runs. (Helena Independent Record)
Angels taking notes for 2010 Classic Jul 16, 2009
That version of the stadium hosted the 1989 game, which is remembered for the back-to-back homers hit in the first inning by the American League's Bo Jackson and Wade Boggs. Jackson, who at that time also served as a running back for the Los Angeles Raiders, was named that game's MVP.. (MLB.com -- Anaheim Angels)
UCSB's Young stars as baseball's transformer Jul 15, 2009
Wade Boggs and Ichiro Suzuki are the only other Major Leaguers who've done that since 1940. Young's 106 hits so far this season have him on pace for another 200. (Ucsbgauchos.com)
Ichiro is key to Mariners for Lee Jul 13, 2009
The Official Site of the Cleveland Indians. Seattle (46-42) at Cleveland (35-54), 7:05 p.m. ET. (MLB.com -- Cleveland Indians)
Who’s in the Halladay spirit? Jul 12, 2009
Other Hall of Famers/former Red Sox who are expected to attend: Eckersley, Wade Boggs, Dick Williams, Carlton Fisk, Tony Perez, Fergie Jenkins, Juan Marichal, and Tom Seaver. Happy birthdays this week to John Dopson (46), Chuck Rainey (55), Mark Brandenburg (39), and Don Pavletich (71). (Boston Globe)
City OKs beer garden for Kiger baseball game Jul 9, 2009
Wade Boggs wrote on Jul 7, 2009 4:08 PM:" Why Larry? Because beer and baseball are as American as apple pie. Personally, all my friends have marked this date on the calender. Hopefully I can see the game from the beer garden. ". Charlie Daniel wrote on Jul 7, 2009 3:54 PM:" Baseball, beer and a dog! I can't wait until July 23rd. I don't know who you are Don Amber but I want to buy you a beer. I heard that the Blue Jackets are a bunch of communist! Go Knights!!!! ". (Klamath Falls Herald & News, OR)
Blyleven: Days of the .400 hitter are dead and gone Jul 3, 2009
A few years back everyone kept their eyes on guys like Rod Carew, Wade Boggs and Tony Gwynn. Last year it was Chipper Jones. (MSNBC -- Sports)
TITANIUM'S WILD PITCH Jun 30, 2009
Just ask former Yankee Wade Boggs, whose pregame chicken meals took him all the way to Cooperstown. Maybe the Mets should start wearing a few more. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
Amesbury actor worthy of 'Notice' Jun 24, 2009
Just a few days after the Lowell Spinners had Hall of Famer Wade Boggs (inset) pouring Miller High Life for fans to celebrate opening weekend, the team released word yesterday that it would give away 1,000 bags of plastic poop to kids at last night s game as part of its annual Politically Incorrect Night. (Last year, the Spinners handed out pink potholders to women. (Boston Globe)
Former Red Sox slugger Wade Boggs returns to Medford talking baseball and beer Jun 24, 2009
The Daly Boggs softball team met their hero, Red Sox Hall of Fame slugger Wade Boggs, during a recent appearance at Kappys Liquor in Wellington Circle June 20. Shown, from left, Josh Wallace, Heddo McCollem, Mike Mancuso, Joe Piekos, Eubanks King, Wade Boggs, Vince Rinaldi, Tom Guanci and Jim Rabbitt ... Former Red Sox slugger Wade Boggs returned to the Bay State last weekend talking about two of his favorite pastimes baseball and beer. (Medford Transcript, MA)
Simmons: The wonder years Jun 20, 2009
And let us not forget that when offense jumped so dramatically in '87 we all came to the same conclusion: "The ball is juiced." How else could Wade Boggs hit 24 homers. Why else would the AL's OPS reach a postwar/pre-PEDs peak of. (ESPN -- Baseball)
Charity game goes down to the wire Jun 17, 2009
Fatone, who Sapp dubbed as Joey Fat One before the game, was Red Socks manager Wade Boggs pick as a sleeper in the game. I feel like [Fatone is] going to give us a big hit, he said. (McKinney Courier-Gazette, TX)
The Starting Point: Cat killings in Florida & credit card fraud Jun 16, 2009
Baseball Hall of Famer Wade Boggs, 51. Actress Julie Hagerty, 54. (Yahoo News -- Politics)
TigsTown Player Journal: Player Superstitions Jun 5, 2009
Wade Boggs used to eat the same chicken meal before every game. Thats 162 chicken breasts at least in a season. (Detroit, TheInsiders.com)
Andy Samberg Reveals His Pre-Hosting Rituals May 29, 2009
UNIVERSAL CITY, California Baseball player Wade Boggs ate chicken before every game. NASCAR drivers remove all $50 bills from their wallets. (VHI.com -- Music News)
MLB: Yankees win 8th straight May 21, 2009
Nearly four hours before the game, the Yankees held a Kangaroo Court, something veteran Andy Pettitte said the team hadnt done since 1995, when Wade Boggs was the sitting judge. Mariano Rivera was on the bench this time, with Jeter, Burnett and Johnny Damon on the jury. (MSNBC -- Sports)
Rice in awe as he tours Hall of Fame May 16, 2009
Rice got to hold bats used by Babe Ruth and Ted Williams, got to slip on the glove he wore for 15 major league seasons, and got to read the plaques of former teammates Carl Yastrzemski and Wade Boggs, and former Sox owner Tom Yawkey. Rice stopped to look at the plaque of Lou Gehrig, one of the players that fascinated Rice. (Boston Globe)
Boggs to promote Yankee Stadium book May 16, 2009
NEW YORK -- Hall of Famer Wade Boggs, who played five seasons with the Yankees and was a member of the 1996 World Series championship team, will make a public appearance Saturday promoting a new retrospective book honoring Yankee Stadium. Boggs is scheduled to be on hand from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at Bookends in Ridgewood, N.J., signing copies of The Final Season: The Official Retrospective, by Alfred Santasiere III and Mark Vancil. (MLB.com -- NY Yankees Yankees)
Zimmerman extends hit streak to 29 games May 12, 2009
His streak is the longest by a third baseman in a quarter-century, surpassing Wade Boggs' 28-game streak in 1985. He's also one game shy of the majors' first 30-game hitting streak since Moises Alou did it in late 2007. (Globe and Mail -- Sports)
MLB: Zimmerman extends hit streak to 28 games May 11, 2009
Notes: Zimmermans hitting streak is the longest by a 3B since Bostons Wade Boggs hit in 28 straight in 1985. Arizona will call up 22-year-old Bryan Augenstein from Double-A Mobile to start in place of injured Yusmeiro Petit against Cincinnati on Wednesday. (MSNBC -- Sports)
T-ball is a hit for adults, too May 4, 2009
Wade Boggs wore number 26, she said. Wade Boggs, her all-time favorite Red Sox player. (Boston Globe)
Made for Wade Apr 28, 2009
For Hall of Famer Wade Boggs, fishing in benefits has become way of life ... In saltwater fishing, Hall of Famer Wade Boggs found an enjoyable activity that helps a good cause ... Wade Boggs and his wife Debbie travel all over North America and the world for charity events, most notably the Redbone Celebrity Tournament Series, for which Boggs is on the road for half the year. (ESPN -- Outdoors)
Scituate lacrosse edged in Chowda final Apr 28, 2009
After driving some pretty solid line drives with a regulation size Little League bat, yes I always like to swing something small and light, leaving me totally open to jokes (my teammates on a Florida team years ago laughed at my wooden Wade Boggs special toothpick until I broke it fouling off a pitch by a guy who had just been released by the Oakland A s because he was too wild, but that s a different story), I felt so good that I had to go back with the kids. My seven-year-old daughter has... (Scituate Mariner, MA)
Abbott's message: Life is full of amazing possibilities Apr 17, 2009
Wade Boggs made a great diving play late in the game and Bernie Williams ran a ball down in right-centerfield. That night was just a matter of collecting your breath, calming your heart rate, hitting the target and following through. (Sioux City Journal, IO)
THREE UP, THREE DOWN: Four-out rule boosts Dodgers Apr 15, 2009
The first baseman hit a home run Monday in a 15-5 loss to the Tampa Bay Rays and pitched a scoreless eighth inning, becoming the first New York Yankees position player to take the mound since Wade Boggs used his knuckleball in 1997. "I had fun with it. When am I ever going to have a chance to do that again? Probably never," said Swisher, who hadn't pitched since he was a freshman in high school. (USA Today -- Sports)
MLB: Rays rip Yanks for 15 runs in home opener Apr 14, 2009
It got so bad for the Yankees that first baseman Nick Swisher pitched a scoreless eighth inning, the first New York position player to take the mound since Wade Boggs used his knuckleball in 1997. Its one of those days, captain Derek Jeter said. (MSNBC -- Sports)
Yanks use Swisher to save bullpen Apr 14, 2009
But Jeter was more forgiving, recalling that Wade Boggs had also pitched on Aug. 19, 1997, against the Angels, the last position player to do it for the Yankees before Swisher. As Jeter said, some days you'll blow out teams and other days you'll get blown out. (MLB.com -- NY Yankees Yankees)
Little Giants become big thing in San Jose Apr 14, 2009
His charges include five fellows on any fan's must-see list: Villalona, the 18-year-old Giants' power-source-of-the-future; Buster Posey, the Giants' catcher for the next decade; oversized power pitchers Madison Bumgarner and Tim Alderson; and infielder Conor Gillaspie, whom Skeels likens to Wade Boggs. Posey, potentially the gem of the group, doesn't show much Sunday afternoon. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Bronx Bombers shelled in Tampa Apr 14, 2009
It got so bad for the Yankees that first baseman Nick Swisher pitched a scoreless eighth inning, the first New York position player to take the mound since Wade Boggs used his knuckleball in 1997. Related Articles. (Globe and Mail -- Sports)
Baseball 2009: A bat worth waiting for Apr 4, 2009
" began Alvarez, a kid who grew up on New York's sandlots -- no street stickball, by orders of his protective father the cab driver -- admiring third baseman such as Wade Boggs and Scott Rolen, then took a chance on the Vanderbilt route after declining $700,000-plus from Boston in 2005 after Boggs' old team made him a 14th-round selection. "You know, I don't view it as a problem, but, if you want to call it that, it's a good problem to have. The fact that there are people who want to see me up... (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA -- Sports)
Shouse brings new perspective to 'pen Apr 3, 2009
Hall of Famer Wade Boggs was 41 in 1999 when he reached 3,000 hits, and Fred McGriff was 40 during his brief return to the team in 2004. Closer Troy Percival will turn 40 in August. (MLB.com -- Tampa Bay Devil Rays)
Show details Apr 2, 2009
Baseball Hall of Famer Wade Boggs is featured catching bonefish ... Baseball Hall of Famer Wade Boggs is featured catching bonefish ... Baseball Hall of Famer Wade Boggs is featured catching bonefish. (ESPN -- Outdoors)
2009 Saltwater Series schedule Apr 2, 2009
In 2008, competitors included Major League Baseball Hall of Famer Wade Boggs; fly-fishing legends Stu Apte and Flip Pallot; and Bassmaster Elite Series pros Chris and Bobby Lane. The ESPN Outdoors Saltwater Series will focus on several different types of sportfish including redfish, striped bass, tarpon, bonefish and permit. (ESPN -- Outdoors)
'Zero regrets:' Schilling retires Mar 24, 2009
Schilling enriched that history throughout a career that began with Baltimore in 1988 when he retired the first major league batter he faced, Boston's Wade Boggs, on a groundball. He threw his last pitch in 2007, a ball on a full count to Colorado's in Game 2 of Boston's World Series sweep. (ESPN -- Baseball)
Around this time of year, great stories spring to mind Feb 22, 2009
Spring training is where Michael Dukakis took batting practice off Bill Fischer in Winter Haven in 1988 and where Bill Clinton spoke with Wade Boggs outside the visitor's dugout in Kissimmee in 1992. It's where Boggs announced, "I'm the white Irving Fryar," after tumbling out of the family jeep when his wife wheeled out of Christy's Restaurant in Winter Haven in 1992. (Boston Globe)
Marlins like what they see in Coghlan Feb 21, 2009
And there is Hall of Famer Wade Boggs. "That's something that always gets brought up -- the power," Coghlan said. (MLB.com -- Florida Marlins)
Relive dramatic climax of 1986 Series Feb 17, 2009
They had to like it even more going into the sixth inning, when back-to-back homers by Dwight Evans and Rich Gedman, followed by an RBI single by Wade Boggs -- all coming in the second inning -- allowed the Sox to sport a 3-0 lead. But the Mets would take complete control from there. (MLB.com -- NY Mets Mets)
An overdose of vitriol after A-Rod steroid revelations Feb 11, 2009
As Wade Boggs famously stated while in the middle of his paramour scandal, "It's not like I killed the president or something.". Hating on A-Rod has been a parlor game in Red Sox Nation since February of 2004. (Boston Globe -- Sports)
Mauer's second batting crown a rare feat Feb 8, 2009
Nobody has won more than two titles in the AL since Wade Boggs in the 1980s. So Lombardi might have to move over one of these days to make room for the most successful hitting catchers ever. (MLB.com -- Minnesota Twins)
