And so in the Aug. 21, 2017, Globe, I wrote a column on the two rookies, citing other Red Sox-Yankees individual rivalries such as Ted Williams vs. Joe DiMaggio, Carlton Fisk vs. Thurman Munson ...

When it comes to Wade Boggs’ rookie cards, there’s no doubt that they’re still a favorite among the baseball card collecting community especially if collectors can get their hands on a PSA 10.

From June 9, 1985 through Jun 6, 1986, Wade Boggs played 162 games for the Red Sox. And in that span, he batted .401. MORE: MLB missing out on Cuban superstar who is shining in Japan ...

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Boggs then spent 11 years in Boston (18 total in the MLB) and was inducted in the Red Sox Hall of Fame in 2004, the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 2005 and had his uniform No. 26 retired by the ...

Picked-up pieces while wondering if anybody else is worried about Jaylen Brown’s knee . . . ⋅ Bill Belichick’s new book, “The Art of Winning,” arrived in the mail this past week and I ...

Boggs, who won the 1996 World Series with the Yankees, owns a career .328 batting average, ninth-best among the 33 members of the 3,000-hits club. His 2,098 hits for the Red Sox alone are fifth in ...

Wade Boggs says he is cancer-free. Boggs, 66, announced the “extremely emotional” news Friday in a post on X. “An extremely emotional day I can’t thank my doctors Dr. Engleman and Dr ...