Baseball Hall of Famer Wade Boggs remains cancer free.<\/p>\n
Boggs told reporters Friday, ahead of his return to Fenway Park for a Boston Red Sox anniversary celebration, that he is free of prostate cancer following his diagnosis in 2024.<\/p>\n
“I’m a cancer survivor now. Prostate cancer is null and void, thank God,” Boggs said (h\/t MassLive’s Christopher Smith).<\/p>\n
Boggs added, “Had my checkup a month ago, and I’m completely cancer free.”<\/p>\n
Boggs, who first shared<\/a> his diagnosis in September 2024, first announced<\/a> he was cancer free in February 2025.<\/p>\n “It’s a process that you have to go through, and I encourage all young men to get your PSA test,” Boggs said Friday. <\/p>\n Boggs was one of six Red Sox icons present to celebrate the 125th anniversary of the club’s first home game ahead of Friday’s contest against the visiting Tampa Bay Rays.<\/p>\n He joined David Ortiz, Pedro Mart\u00ednez, Jim Rice, Carlton Fisk and Carl Yastrzemski for a ceremonial first pitch prior to the Red Sox’s 2-0 win.<\/p>\n Boggs, who will turn 68 in June, spent his first 11 MLB seasons with the Red Sox before playing for the New York Yankees and Tampa Bay. <\/p>\n He marked a career .328 batting average before retiring from MLB after the 1999 season, after which his numbers were retired by both the Red Sox and Rays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Baseball Hall of Famer Wade Boggs remains cancer free. Boggs told reporters Friday, ahead of his return to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":660912,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-660911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=660911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/660912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}