The Boston Red Sox rectified a long overdue tragedy by announcing this week that Wade Boggs will have his number retired at Fenway Park next May.
Boggs was inducted into Cooperstown a decade ago, but the Red Sox didn’t feel compelled to immediately honor him the way they did for recent inductees Jim Rice and Pedro Martinez. Why was that?
Perhaps it’s due to rules established by the previous ownership regime, which dictated that a player must have spent at least 10 years with the franchise, be a member of the baseball Hall of Fame and have finished their career as a member of the Red Sox.