Wade Boggs
American former professional baseball player (born 1958) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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. He also played for the New York Yankees (1993–1997), winning the 1996 World Series with them, and finished his career with the Tampa Bay Devil Rays (1998–1999).
Wade Boggs | |
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Third baseman | |
Born: (1958-06-15) June 15, 1958 (age 65) Omaha, Nebraska, U.S. | |
Batted: Left Threw: Right | |
MLB debut | |
April 10, 1982, for the Boston Red Sox | |
Last MLB appearance | |
August 27, 1999, for the Tampa Bay Devil Rays | |
MLB statistics | |
Batting average | .328 |
Hits | 3,010 |
Home runs | 118 |
Runs batted in | 1,014 |
Teams | |
Career highlights and awards | |
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Member of the National | |
Baseball Hall of Fame | |
Induction | 2005 |
Vote | 91.9% (first ballot) |
Boggs became the 23rd player to reach 3,000 career hits. His hitting in the 1980s and 1990s made him a perennial contender for American League batting titles. He is 33rd on the list of career leaders for batting average among Major League Baseball players with a minimum of 1,000 plate appearances and has the highest ranking of those still alive. Boggs is part of the Red Sox Hall of Fame and the Rays Hall of Fame, and he was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 2005.
With 12 straight All-Star appearances, Boggs is third only to Brooks Robinson and George Brett in number of consecutive appearances as a third baseman. In 1997, he ranked number 95 on the Sporting News list of the 100 Greatest Baseball Players.[1] Boggs, a 1976 graduate of Plant High School in Tampa, Florida,[2] resides in the Tampa Palms neighborhood of Tampa.