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Baseball Hall of Famer Wade Boggs announced he's been diagnosed with prostate cancer in a post shared on his X account Saturday (September 7).
Boggs, 66, appeared to be in positive spirits, vowing to "ring that damn bell," a ritual cancer patients participate in during the conclusion of their treatment.
"I’ve never been a goal oriented person but with the strength and support of my family and my faith in God I’m going to ring that damn bell #positiveattitude," Boggs wrote, along with a photo of a "prostate cancer patient guide."
Boggs is widely regarded as one of the best contact hitters in baseball history, hitting for a .328 career average with 3,010 hits, 1,014 RBIs and 118 home runs during his 18-year Major League Baseball career with the Boston Red Sox (1982-1992), New York Yankees (1993-1997) and Tampa Bay Devil Rays (1998-1999).
The Nebraska native is a 12-time All-Star, eight-time Silver Slugger Award winner (1983, 1986-1989, 1991, 1993, 1994), five-time American League batting champion (1983, 1985-1988), two-time Gold Glove Award winner (1994, 1995) and a World Series champion with the Yankees in 1996. Boggs' diagnosis comes weeks after his fellow 2005 Baseball Hall of Fame enshrinee, Ryne Sandberg, announced he was free of metastatic prostate cancer.
“Rang the Bell this morning!” Sandberg wrote on his Instagram account on August 15. “WE did it, WE won! What a Dream Team, family, doctors, friends, nurses, fans who supported myself and [wife] Margaret through the last 8 months! We feel so blessed from all the love, prayers and thoughts and positive words that have come our way!”