BOSTON -- Wade Boggs will ascend to the ranks of Boston Red Sox royalty on Thursday night when the team retires his No. 26 jersey in a pre-game ceremony at Fenway Park. As a warmup to that signature achievement, Boggs got together with a couple dozen old friends to reminisce, enjoy a cold beverage and lament what might have been.
The Red Sox, who are as adept as any team in baseball at celebrating the past, turned Yawkey Way into Memory Lane on Wednesday night when they paid tribute to the 1986 American League pennant club that lost to the New York Mets in seven games in the World Series.