Lost in all of Dennis “Oil Can Boyd’s” admissions of pregame drug use in his new book were the accusations that his teammate, Wade Boggs was a racist who would hurl epithets left and right in the Red Sox clubhouse.
Boggs went on the radio and, to put it mildly, took exception:
“Absolutely, positively, 100 million percent, I am not a racist, I am not a bigot,” Boggs said. “You have a delusional drug addict who let not only his family down, but his team, the city of Boston, Red Sox Nation when it counted most. Now he wants the good people of Boston to go out and spend money on this garbage to support his habit. I find that extremely amusing.”
Too bad the 1979 Pirates already lay claim to “We are Family,” because that could totally be a mid-80s Red Sox thing, yes?
