Manufacturer: Topps
Set: 1983 Topps Baseball ➡️
Player Name: Wade Boggs
Position/Team: 3rd & 1st Base for Red Sox
Card #: 498
Card Size: 2-1/2” x 3-1/2”
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Wade Boggs was a highly successful professional baseball player, primarily known for his exceptional hitting. He played for 18 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1982 to 1999 and was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 2005.
Boggs played for a variety of MLB teams including Boston Red Sox (1982–1992), New York Yankees (1993–1997) and Tampa Bay Devil Rays (1998–1999).
Wade Boggs has many career highlights and achievements. Boggs is a member of the exclusive 3,000-hit club, reaching the milestone with a home run on August 7, 1999. He holds a .328 career batting average. He consistently led the American League in batting, winning titles in 1983, 1985, 1986, 1987, and 1988. From 1983 to 1989, he had seven consecutive seasons with 200 or more hits, an American League record at the time.
Boggs was selected to the All-Star team for 12 consecutive years (1985–1996). He won a World Series title with the New York Yankees. He also excelled defensively at third base, earning Gold Gloves in 1994 and 1995.
His #26 was retired by the Boston Red Sox, and his #12 was retired by the Tampa Bay Rays.
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Did You Know? After a decade as the face of the Boston franchise, Boggs made the unthinkable jump to the arch-rival New York Yankees in 1993. While the move stunned New England, it ultimately provided Boggs with the one crowning achievement that had eluded him in Boston: a World Series ring.
During the definitive Game 6 of the 1996 World Series against the Atlanta Braves, the Yankees clinched the championship on their home grass. In the middle of the chaotic, emotional postgame celebration at Yankee Stadium, Boggs pulled off one of the most unexpected, joyous moments in New York sports lore. He hopped onto the back of a New York City Police Department horse, donned an official NYPD cap, and took a roaring, triumphant victory lap around the entire perimeter of the field, cementing his legacy as a champion on both sides of baseball’s greatest rivalry.
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