Wade Boggs says he is cancer-free, two years after he introduced 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.
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The Baseball Hall of Famer threw out the primary pitch earlier than the sport between the Boston Red Sox and Tampa Bay Rays at Fenway Park. The 66-year-old Boggs informed reporters that early detection led to his 2024 diagnosis and the therapy he ended up present process in Florida.
“It’s a process that you have to go through, and I encourage all young men to get your PSA tests,” Boggs mentioned. “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 additionally half of a ceremony at Fenway Park on Friday to have a good time the one hundred and twenty fifth anniversary of the Red Sox first dwelling sport on May 8, 1901. Fellow franchise legends equivalent to David Ortiz, Jim Rice, Carl Yastrzemski, Carlton Fisk and Pedro Martinez had been additionally in attendance.
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The 2005 Hall of Famer performed 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 gained a World Series in 1996 with the Yankees. The Red Sox and Rays each retired his quantity.