ST. PETERSBURG -- Memory Lane was real at Tropicana Field on Saturday night prior to the Rays-Red Sox contest.
Twenty years had passed since the inaugural Devil Rays game was played on March 31, 1998, and a celebration of that first game took place during the pregame, which included 20 players and coaches from that first team.
Wade Boggs looked around at his teammates from 1998 and chuckled.
"These guys were in their 20s," Boggs said. "I turned 40 that season."
Esteban Yan talked with his Dominican countryman, Alex Colome, whom Yan has known since Colome was hip-high to him.