Hall of Famer Wade Boggs sends admonishing message to Tiger Woods
When golfer Tiger Woods was arrested for suspicion of DUI after a rollover car crash in Jupiter Island, Florida, on Friday, March 27, one Baseball Hall of Famer took notice. MORE: Yankees pitcher sounds off on fans’ ‘brutal’ TV nightmare: ‘sounds terrible’ Wade Boggs, whose 18-year career in MLB resulted in a place in the Baseball Hall of Fame, had an admonishing message for Woods: “My Mom got killed by a drunk driver,” Boggs wrote on his X account March 27. “I hope you wake up Mr Woods.
” Sue Nell Graham was 61 when she died in 1986, at the peak of her son’s career with the Boston Red Sox. She was a pilot in the Army, and later a flight instructor. Of all the sports celebrities with a take on Woods’ latest automobile accident (his SUV rolled over after a single-car crash in 2021), Boggs’ might hit the closest to home.
Neither Woods, nor the other driver involved in his latest crash, were injured in the accident . “According to a source at Martin County Fire Rescue, it was a two-car crash, [and] one vehicle was a rollover,” WPEC CBS12 News’ Skyler Shepard reported . “One person is stable, while another refused to go to the hospital.
MCFR said there are no injuries to anyone. ” Early in the morning of Nov. 27, 2009 , Woods crashed his SUV into a fire hydrant and a tree outside of his home near Orlando.
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