Movember: The best mustaches in Boston Red Sox history
By Sean Sylver
Boggs and Don Mattingly were two of the dominant hitters of the 80’s and both possessed a signature ‘stache to complement a highly successful batting technique. While Mattingly was a power bat, eclipsing 30 dingers in three consecutive seasons, Boggs looped singles over the outstretched gloves of infielders and scraped paint off the Green Monster with loopy doubles. He repeated this pattern about 3,000 times and all the way to Cooperstown.
An urban legend contends Boggs once drank 64 beers on a cross-country flight. While the third baseman has said it’s not exactly true, just imagine that tremendous mustache perched atop the 64 beer cans as the swill went down, cold and smooth, one by one.