Wade Boggs: "I eat chicken every day--that's my biggest superstition. I didn't start consuming chicken on a daily basis until 1983, when I won my first batting title. Debbie, my wife, fixes chicken about a dozen different ways for me; but each year, I look for a good-luck chicken, a dish that every time I eat it, I know will pay off in hits for me that night. And I really have to believe that. In '83, my good-luck chicken was lemon chicken; in '84 and '85, I went with baked chicken, Italian style; and last year, it was barbecued chicken... Usually, on a 12-day home stand, I'll eat my good-luck chicken six or seven times. It's like a rabbit's foot to me, except instead of carrying it around, I have it inside me... I got to the point of paranoia when I couldn't find any chicken to eat before a game. Now I know all the restaurants in America League cities that serve excellent chicken, and those are the places I frequent... They call me the Chicken Man, you know."
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Playboy, July 1987
