![]() An excerpt from "THE MOMENT" appears below and it is significant because after it took place, Vaughn continued wearing #42 and became the last player in franchise history for the Boston Red Sox ( #42), the Anaheim Angels ( #42) AND the New York Mets ( #42) to be issued the universally retired number: ESPN paid homage to that day in baseball history ranking it 93rd (Rick Weinberg, '93. On April 15, 1947, there were 13 Major League players still wearing #42. Both Glaus and Vaughn have since been passed courtesy of 184 strikeout seasons set by Mark Trumbo (2013) and Mike Trout (2014). That same year, Mo Vaughn was on the Angels as well, and struck out a franchise record 181 times. ![]() Troy Glaus broke that record in 2000, reaching a new plateau by striking out 163 times, but did not set a new team record. When Reggie Jackson struck out 156 times in 1982, he became the first players in Angels history to break the 150+ strikeouts in a season plateau. The next Boston batter to match that feat? Mo Vaughn, who was the first lefty, the first any only one to do it twice (1998), and the duo remain the only two Red Sox sluggers to date in the "club". In 1978, Jim Rice became the first Red Sox hitter in history with a 200+ hit / 40+ home run season. Since Vaughn, only David Ortiz (4x) has joined that set group of Red Sox legends. Wade Boggs was an All-Star from 1985 through 1996 - twelve consecutive seasons.When "The Hit Dog" won his fourth Red Sox MVP Award, he joined an elite set of four-time recipients that included Carl Yastrzemski (6x), Dwight Evans (4x) and Roger Clemens (4x). Wade Boggs | National Baseball Hall of Fame Plaque | Class of 2005 ( HOF) Who was it? ĭid you know that when The Sporting News released their list of the 100 Greatest Players in baseball history (in 1998), Wade Boggs was number ninety-five?ĭid you know that Wade Boggs #12 was retired by the Rays on April 7, 2000, and his #26 by the Red Sox on May 26, 2016? II (Interesting Information): Boggs was a member of the inaugural Tampa Bay Rays ( 1998), so no other player wore #12 before him, or after him! The five players with more were: Pete Rose (10), Ty Cobb (9), Lou Gehrig (8), Paul Waner (8), and Willie Keeler (8).ĭid you know that when Wade Boggs joined the 3,000 Hits Club on August 7, 1999, he became the first member in baseball history whose three-thousandth career hit was a home run?ĭid you know that Wade Boggs, on August 7, 1999, hit the first home run in franchise history for the Tampa Bay Rays? During that contest, Boggs also became the first Rays third baseman, the first player with an RBI, and the first to get walked - while the bases were full.ĭid you know that Wade Boggs never led the American League in fielding percentage by a third baseman while playing in Boston, but after getting traded to the New York Yankees, he led in 1993 (.970) and 1994 (.981), capturing his first and only two Gold Gloves?ĭid you know that when Wade Boggs hit his 114th career home run, on June 15, 1998, it was also his fortieth birthday? Only two players before Boggs had ever homered on their 40th birthday, Bob Thurman in 1957, and a Hall of Fame player in 1983. Wade Boggs had seven 200-hit seasons in his career, the sixth most in Major League Baseball history at the time of his retirement. ![]() The only other players in baseball history with four-or-more consecutive batting titles are Ty Cobb, Rogers Hornsby, Rod Carew, and Tony Gwynn! Wade Boggs was a five-time batting champion, first in 1983, then he won each year from 1985 through 1988. Do you know who held the record before Boggs? Wade Boggs took the field at third base one-hundred sixty-one times in 1985, another still-standing Red Sox record for most games played in a season by a third baseman. Wade Boggs had a career high 240 hits in 1985, his third consecutive season with two-hundred or more hits, and he set a still-standing Red Sox record for hits in a season by any type hitter (lefty, righty, or switch hitter) in team history. Wade Boggs "only" had 203 hits in 1984, but when "connected" with his 210-hit season in 1983, he became the first Red Sox lefty with back-to-back seasons with two-hundred or more hits.
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