Editor’s note: The main body of this post originally ran back in late January, but recent events caused me to update it.
Wade Boggs will be visiting Indianapolis this weekend as part of the AAA Indians’ “Signature Saturdays” promotion, so I made plans to take my son. As is typical in these situations, the legendary hitter — and even more legendary beer drinker — took to the local airwaves to talk about the appearance and to address various rumors of his superstitions and whatnot.
I have always enjoyed the stuff about having to eat chicken before every game, always having to do various warm-ups at 17 minutes past the hour, taking exactly 150 ground balls, etc, but it’s the lampooned legend of taking down over two and a half cases of beer between Boston and LA.