The Strange Ways of Wade: Hair Restoration All-Star

by Andrew Clayman
01/25/08

These days, many Americans know Wade Boggs as the smiling, mustachioed face of Medical Hair Restoration, showing off his before and after photos with fellow retired athletes like Mercury Morris and Steve DeBerg. Before he was a pitchman, however, Boggs was one of Major League Baseball's greatest hitters, and also one of the game's most famously superstitious characters.

Ironically, during Boggs' 17 year career, most people never saw the gradual hair loss he was suffering from, as his job involved wearing a hat every day. That being said, he hardly needed a hair restoration endorsement deal to earn him attention during his playing days. First and foremost, Boggs did his talking with the bat, finishing with an amazing 3,010 hits and .328 career batting average as a member of the Boston Red Sox, New York Yankees, and Tampa Bay Devil Rays. But even aside from the stats that made him a baseball Hall of Famer, Boggs tended to stand out for a number of other, more unusual reasons.

Most athletes have a superstition or two about lucky shoes or not stepping on the baselines. But Wade Boggs took his superstitions to infamous new levels. For one thing, he ate chicken before every single game, with no exceptions. His daily schedule was also planned out with scientific precision, waking up at the exact same time every day, taking his batting practice cuts at exactly 5:17pm, and doing his wind sprints precisely two hours later, at 7:17pm. Before every at-bat during the game itself, Boggs would use his bat to draw the Hebrew symbol for “life” in the dirt, even though he wasn't Jewish. And there's plenty more where that came from!

After retiring, Boggs turned his unique brand of dedication toward conquering his hair loss, and he loved the results of Medical Hair Restoration so much, he decided to endorse it. Boggs also became a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2005, and myths of his unique exploits, both on and off the field, continue to this day.

(Photos courtesy of AP) 

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