I’m MLB Hall of Famer who ate chicken before every game and famously drank 73 beers on single flight

Some may know him as “Chicken Man.”

Others may know him as the man who once drank 73 beers on one single flight.

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But most simply know him as Wade Boggs.

The MLB Hall of Famer who played 18 seasons in the league, with a personality that was as big as his appetite for chicken and beer.

Legend has it, Boggs once drank 73 beers on a single flight from Boston to Los Angeles.

According to the man himself.

Comedian Bert Kreischer had Boggs on his podcast, Bertcast, where the Hall of Famer explained himself and told the legendary tale.

“We’re leaving Boston, Sunday day game and we’re leaving Boston and we’re flying to LA,” Boggs said.

“So you pack some roadies to the airport and you got them in your case.

“Depending on traffic you don’t want to leave yourself short.

“So you get on the plane and I was playing blackjack with some other players and was taking a couple sips…

“I’ll take another one, I’m dealing, take a couple sips, take another one.

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“I was two-sipping beers and we’re probably over Nebraska or somewhere like that and the card game is going well, and one of the players looks at me and goes, ‘Boggsy, you realize you had like 51 beers.’

“I go, ‘Really didn’t seem like it.’

“Okay all right cool, he says we’ve still got another hour to go.

“I said well let’s see how many we can get then.

“The final tally was 73.”

You would think the story would be over after 73 beers were consumed.

You would be wrong.

“We get off the plane and five or six of us decided to go down to the Red Onion down in Laguna Beach.

“I wound up having a total of 107. That was the final total for the day. 

“The next day we’re facing Mark Langston and I wound up going two for three with two walks and two doubles off of Langston.”

Just a casual day consuming 107 beers, and then the next day going 2-for-3 with two doubles against a four-time All-Star.

That was the life of Boggs and why he found himself in Cooperstown, New York.

And if you haven’t figured it out by now, Boggs was called “Chicken Man” because he would eat chicken before every game.

No matter what.

Superstitions die hard.

But if you’ve learned anything reading a little about Boggs, it’s that a balanced diet of chicken and beer will probably get you in the Hall of Fame.

Or maybe not. Probably not.

After all, there was only one Boggs.