Wade Anthony Boggs (born June 15, 1958) is an American former
professional baseball third baseman. He spent his 18-year baseball
career primarily with the Boston Red Sox, but he also played for the
New York Yankees, with whom he won the 1996 World Series over the
Atlanta Braves, and the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, with whom he reached
3,000 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 was elected to the Red Sox Hall of
Fame in 2004 and the 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. Boggs, a 1976 graduate of Plant High School
in Tampa, Florida, currently resides in the Tampa Palms neighborhood
of Tampa.Born in Omaha, Nebraska, the youngest of three sons of
Winfield Kennedy Boggs Jr. and Sue Nell Graham, Wade had a regimented
military upbringing. Winfield and Sue met in 1946 at a military base
in Georgia. Winfield served with the Marines in World War II and flew
for the Air Force in the Korean War, while Sue piloted mail planes in
World War II. The Boggs family lived in several different places
(including Puerto Rico and Savannah, Georgia) before settling in
Tampa, Florida when Wade was 11 years old. He attended Plant High
School in Tampa, where he played baseball and was an All-State
football player as a senior. Boggs played quarterback until his senior
year when he switched positions to avoid injury and thereby protect
his baseball career. His success as a left-footed placekicker and
punter earned him a scholarship offer from the University of South
Carolina. He graduated from Plant High School in 1976 and was selected
by the Boston Red Sox in the seventh round of the 1976 MLB draft on
the advice of veteran scout George Digby. He signed with the club for
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