The Sunday Hop

Boggs drinks 107 beers, a must have hitting device and 20 years since the Bartman game

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2 - GREAT BASEBALL VIDEOS

3 - FUN BASEBALL FACTS

Wade Boggs Was A Beer Drinking Champ

As hard as it is to believe, multiple teammates of Boggs would claim that ol’ Wade would drink 50-60 beers regularly on a cross country flight. More on this incredibly story at the bottom…

Edwin Jackson - The MLB Vagabond

17 year MLB veteran pitcher, Edwin Jackson played for a record 14 different MLB teams. This guy moved to a different city almost every year of his career. Safe to say, Edwin has the most impressive closet display of MLB gear of all time.

It Took Votto 6,289 At Bats To Do This

Pop out to the first basemen. 13 years and almost 7,000 at bats, Joey Votto, a left handed hitter had never pulled a ball for a popout on the infield. If you’re familiar with the hitting concept of staying “inside the baseball” nobody does it better than Votto.

2 - CAN’T MISS BASEBALL CLIPS

Anyone else feel old watching this Bartman Game clip, below? 20 years ago, before HD was a thing, apparently. What’s wild is in 2003 when you were watching this game, we were all thinking, “no way the picture gets any better than this.” on our 50” Toshiba TV’s that weighed 400 pounds. The first era of big screen TV’s.

1 - INCREDIBLE BASEBALL STORY

The Day That Wade Boggs Drank 107 Beers

In 2003, former Yankees teammate Jeff Nelson said during an interview with KJR Radio that Boggs would routinely drink 50-60 beers during a cross country flight.

Everyone who has played with Boggs has all said the same thing: the guy can drink… like, a lot.

“It was on one of those flights from Boston to LA and playing blackjack on the plane with a bunch of the guys. And I had just started and didn’t know that one of the other guys was counting and he said, “Boggs, do you realize that you’re at 45 [beers drank] right now? And I think we had about another hour or so to go on the flight, so [the final count] was 73 for the flight,”