WADE BOGGS RUMORS & GOSSIP

Quick Hits with Wade Boggs

Wade Boggs retired from Major League Baseball in 1999 with 3,010 hits, a career batting average of .328, 12 All-Star appearances and one World Series title during his 18-year Major League Baseball career. Boggs won five batting titles with the Boston Red Sox but didn’t win his first (and only) World Series championship until he signed with the rival New York Yankees. He was elected...
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Steroids and Saved by the Bell: Bayside High’s Dark Secret

There is a Wade Boggs like buzz this week in Major League Baseball. The Los Angeles Dodgers new phenom Yasiel Puig is tearing it up and is the talk of the town, star pitchers went to the DL with arms issues, and the story of the hour is clearly the Biogenesis steroid clinic being linked to more players than a Bill Bellamy movie has in it. Speaking of baseball, haven’t you always...
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13 days ago  |  Discuss

Wade Boggs really wants the Red Sox to retire his number already

Hall of Fame third basemen Wade Boggs is still waiting for the Boston Red Sox to retire his number.Boggs, 54, spent 11 of his 18 major league seasons as a member of the Red Sox, racking up eight All-Star nods and five batting titles during his time in Boston. Furthermore, he ranks among the franchise's all-time leaders in several categories with a .338 average (second), .428...
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April 10, 2013  |  Discuss

Wade Boggs wants his jersey retired by the Red Sox

While the Boston Red Sox certainly didn’t pursue Wade Boggs after he put up the worst season of his 11-year career with the team, he did choose to sign with arch-rival New York after the 1992 season, making him the enemy. It’s a business, but there was never a reconciliation between Boggs and his former team, even though the Hall of Famer entered Cooperstown wearing a Red Sox...
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April 10, 2013  |  Discuss
LONG TIME COMING?

Boggs wants BoSox to retire his number

Hall of Fame third baseman Wade Boggs insists he's not bitter over the past and that he believes it's high time for the Boston Red Sox to retire his number.

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April 10, 2013  |  1 Comment

Matthew Perry Joins Wade Boggs in Group Planning to Expand ‘Field of Dreams’ Site

Field of Dreams has a special place in many baseball fans’ hearts. But for baseball fans who also happen to be former Major League Baseball players or TV stars, there’s a chance to turn that special place into something more substantial. Matthew Perry of Friends fame is joining Go the Distance Baseball LLC, which has bought the property used in Field of Dreams. The plan is to...
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February 07, 2013  |  Discuss

Report: Boggs buys Field of Dreams

After two years on the market, the Field of Dreams movie site has sold for $3.4 million. Former Red Sox, Yankees and Devil Rays third baseman Wade Boggs is part of the group that bought the property, according to CBS Sports. Boggs and Go the Distance Baseball LLC plan on turning the property into a 24-field baseball and softball complex called All-Star Ballpark Heaven. The finished...
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January 03, 2013  |  Discuss
SEATED YET SHIMMYING

Wade Boggs busts a move at Thunder game

Oh. My.If there is one lesson to be learned from Wade Boggs being captured by the Oklahoma City Thunder broadcast team Monday night, it's be careful what you do while on camera.  Except, well, it appears as though the Hall of Famer has no shame when it comes to his dancing prowess.Oh, lifetime .328 hitter apparently shook his groove thang (seriously?) well enough to lead the...
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December 18, 2012  |  Discuss

Wade Boggs on Oil Can Boyd: He’s a delusional drug addict

If you are in the business of believing people who admit that they are high on marijuana and possibly cocaine while doing an interview, you may now consider Wade Boggs to be a racist. During an interview with WEEI in Boston earlier this week to promote his new book, “They Call Me Oil Can,” Oil Can Boyd called Boggs a bigot and said he used to use the n-word on a regular basis...
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May 10, 2012  |  Discuss

Wade Boggs Fires Back at Oil Can Boyd, Calls Pitcher 'Delusional Drug Addict' (Video)

Wade Boggs isn't heard from too much as he enjoys his retirement, but he apparently felt the need to come out and try to defend his name. The former Red Sox, Yankees and Devil Rays third baseman was accused of being a bigot and a racist last week by former Sox teammate Dennis "Oil Can" Boyd. The former pitcher crushed Boggs, saying that he frequently used racial slurs...
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May 10, 2012  |  Discuss
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