Wade Boggs has Baseball in his Family Tree
Wade Boggs was overwhelmingly elected to baseball's Hall of Fame on Tuesday, and it figures. Baseball is in Boggs' blood; he's related to Abner Doubleday. After receiving the third-highest vote total in history, the 3,010-hit machine revealed he's a seventh-generation removed blood-related cousin of Doubleday, the alleged inventor of baseball.
's why Boggs had an eerie feeling when he played twice on the sacred turf of Doubleday Field in Cooperstown, N.Y., as a member of the Boston Red Sox, or when as a giddy teenage minor leaguer in 1976 he walked through the museum's hallowed walls.
Doubleday (1819-1893) is credited with inventing the rules for baseball in Cooperstown in 1839. Boggs' sister, Ann Morrison, studied the family tree and discovered the family link about 10 years ago.
"She went to a genealogist trying to see how far our family tree could go back," Boggs said Tuesday. "It wound up we're blood-related on my grandmother's side with Abner Doubleday. That was kind of neat to see someone who had an influence on baseball actually had an influence of me having it as an occupation."
I think it would be cool to talk to wade boggs because i am a Doubleday too and also related to Abner Doubleday, its really strange to know somone that is famous and lucky to be of abners blood!!
Posted by: Jonathon Doubleday | January 18, 2005 at 12:50 AM
I am very interested in seeing Abner Doubledays family Tree. I was very young when my Dad died but I remember specifically a time when he told me that his grandfather or great grandfather was Abner Doubleday. My Dad was born in 1910 and I only know that his dads name was Thomas Irvin Patrick and his wife's name was Nellie Doubleday
Posted by: Linda Beach | January 28, 2005 at 05:49 PM
this is a lot of help with my report for school i had to look up doubleday and this helped me out a lot. so thank all of you SO much. :)
Posted by: Nikole Alfarano | April 08, 2005 at 04:03 PM
On the Baseball Almanac Blog there is an Press Release called "Baseball and the Royal Wedding" which talks about Abner Doubleday.
4-8-05
http://www.around-the-horn.com
It mentions that:
"General Doubleday is a 15th cousin twice removed of Prince Charles and a 24th cousin twice removed of Camilla Parker-Bowles."
Posted by: Robert | April 10, 2005 at 08:14 AM
What is the name of your father? Is his name Howard Lee Boggs?
I would like a reply to this question as soon as possible, I have a lot of information about this man. Either way, please let me know what his name is.
Thank You,
Joanne Boggs
Posted by: Joanne Boggs | February 28, 2008 at 11:26 AM