Twenty years later, Wade Boggs still has no idea how he ended up parading around Yankee Stadium on the back of a police horse.
The moment became perhaps the most iconic image from the Yankees’ 1996 world championship season, their first in 18 years.
On Oct. 26, the mustached 38-year-old superstar, who ironically had been afraid of horses since being bitten by one as a child, trotted around on a horse at the “House that Ruth Built” while pointing one index finger toward the heavens and wearing a grin that an industrial-strength cleanser couldn’t erase. After all the chaos subsided, Boggs didn’t remember if he jumped on the horse or was pulled up on it.