Wade Boggs was the very first number-three hitter in the Tampa Bay Rays‘ franchise history. He came to the team exactly 200 hits shy of 3,000. He had spent his entire 16-year career in the AL East playing with the Red Sox and the Yankees. He would finish his playing career with the newest team in the division, the Tampa Bay Devil Rays.
Boggs was from Tampa and was happy to return, like a heroic cowboy riding into the sunset. Boggs was the cowboy and Tampa was the sunset… and the Rays were the horse?