Wade Boggs says he is cancer-free, two years after he announced he had been diagnosed with prostate cancer.
“I’m a cancer survivor now. Prostate cancer is null and void. Thank God,” Boggs said Friday night.
The Baseball Hall of Famer threw out the first pitch before the game between the Boston Red Sox and Tampa Bay Rays at Fenway Park. The 66-year-old Boggs told reporters that early detection led to his 2024 diagnosis and the treatment he ended up undergoing in Florida.
“It’s a process that you have to go through, and I encourage all young men to get your PSA tests,” Boggs said. “Please go out there. Because mine, it wasn’t even on the radar. It was a 3.3, and they don’t even start talking about it until it gets to four. But I had the bad one, and we caught it early. … I had my checkup a month ago, and I’m completely cancer-free.”
Boggs was also part of a ceremony at Fenway Park on Friday to celebrate the 125th anniversary of the Red Sox first-ever home game on May 8, 1901. Fellow franchise legends such as David Ortiz, Jim Rice, Carl Yastrzemski, Carlton Fisk, and Pedro Martinez were also in attendance.
The 2005 Hall of Famer played 18 seasons with Red Sox, New York Yankees and Rays. The third baseman was a 12-time All-Star, two-time Gold Glove Award winner, five-time AL batting champion and eight-time Silver Slugger Award winner, and he won a World Series in 1996 with the Yankees. The Red Sox and Rays both retired his number.
