Wade Boggs claims he drank 107 beers in a single day...

[Stewie]

With over over 3,000 hits and a career batting average of .328, Wade Boggs was one of the greatest pure hitters in baseball history. Not as well-known is the crown Boggs holds as the game's greatest pure beer drinker. Legend has it that the Hall of Fame third baseman once drank 64 beers on a cross-country flight from Boston to Los Angeles.

Boggs only denies that the number was 64. He doesn't say if the real number was more or less, only that it was "a few Miller Lites." It may seem unbelievable to us mortals that one man could drink so many beers on a single cross-country flight, but a little digging will turn up plenty of information to support the legend. On a radio show interview, former relief pitcher Jeff Nelson said that Boggs absolutely would drink "50 or 60" beers on a cross-country flight, explaining that the tally would begin in the locker room before carrying over to the drive to the airport, the tarmac, layovers, and any other chance he got as the team was making their way from coast to coast. "It wasn't just an isolated incident," Nelson concluded. "He did it almost every time."

Last night, the topic came up again when Charlie Day stopped by The Tonight Show to discuss the new season of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. In one episode, the gang tries to recreate Boggs's feat, and Boggs himself makes a cameo as part of a hallucination Charlie has when he's 30 beers deep. Day also claims that the stories about Boggs's drinking prowess are true, and that Boggs even told him that the actual number of beers he drank, the number he so smugly refused to divulge to Kornheiser, was 107.

Boggs went down on hookers, so who knows? Ha!

[seclark]

Originally Posted by MOhillbilly

In some sick way it was nice to remember what dad smelled like.

not so with uncle Emmett...dude was batshit crazy and stunk like a mother****er.
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[SAUTO]

Originally Posted by fan4ever

Have a friend who claims, in an evening, he drank 15 of those flask size bottles of Jack Daniels (pints?). Everyone I've relayed the story to has said the same thing..."He'd be dead".
There's no shortage of bullsh*t drinking stories.

i doubted my tab one night.



they showed me the security tape the next day...

[Dayze]

Bob Dole once slammed an entire of Tequila Rose.

[Pablo]

Originally Posted by Nzoner

In fact one evening I drank 10 double Crown on the rocks and didn't remember a ****ing thing.


Was told the number by a friend

I'm pretty sure one of the first times I hung out with you, you killed almost that many LIIT's. What the hell was that bar called that had the big, nice deck off the Avenue?

[Katipan]

Some of these are wonderful.

https://recordsetter.com/beer-world-records

[Valiant]

Originally Posted by kccrow

Some of the worse alcoholics I know don't ever drink more than a case and a half a day even when they have a reason to try. 64 beers, yeah I can see that. 107? **** no. The guys blood alcohol level would be beyond death.....

If you go here: http://bloodalcoholcalculator.org/#LinkURL

Input Boggs playing weight of 190 pounds. 107 light beers. 22 hrs. Estimated blood alcohol is 1.229. You are very likely to die at 0.50 or higher. Yeah, no way in hell.

Now, it estimates 0.585 if you put in those same values but change the number of beers to 64. This is more reasonable. Yeah, he's very likely near death but at least its reasonable.

The Notre Dame estimator found here: http://oade.nd.edu/educate-yourself-...ac-calculator/

makes it even more unlikely. Enter male, 190 pounds, 22 hours, 1284 ounces (107*12) and 4.40% (Miller Lite) and estimates a blood alcohol content of 1.997.

Point is, Boggs would be dead.

Other than alcohol does not go into the person system the same way for everyone. Some people have genes for it. Friends Russian uncle would hammer 2 to 3 bottles of vodka by himself during a party. Never even buzzed him..

[Red Beans]

Originally Posted by Valiant

Other than alcohol does not go into the person system the same way for everyone. Some people have genes for it. Friends Russian uncle would hammer 2 to 3 bottles of vodka by himself during a party. Never even buzzed him..

In Russia...bottles of Vodka hammer you!

[SAUTO]

There is no way you can tell me people don't build up a tolerance.


I knew a guy who dram ONLY beer, he ran a bar be que in kc for years. He would get up between 330 and 4 every morning and crack a beer. Head to work drink all day go to bed around 8 pm. Drinking all day long.

The doctor told him he HAD to start drinking water, so he started drinking one glass as soon as he woke up and then drinking beer until sleep.


I rode 5miles with him nice and he drank a sixer

['Hamas' Jenkins]

Originally Posted by NewChief

Occasionally you hear stories about people on X drinking so much water they kill themselves. This amount of liquid seems like it would be getting awfully close to that.

Yeah, but that would be due to hyponatremia. Beer has sodium in it, so you aren't going to throw your brain chemistry out of whack.

[ChiliConCarnage]

This just in: Wade Boggs drank 26 beers, passed out, woke up and couldn't remember what was going on.. was sure he drank 100+ beers

['Hamas' Jenkins]

Wade Boggs was close friends with Curt Henning, "Mr. Perfect". One day they were hunting and Boggs caught his leg on a barbed wire fence and ripped it open badly. Henning carried Boggs for a mile back to their truck and then took him to the hospital.

Saved his life.

[NewChief]

Originally Posted by 'Hamas' Jenkins

Yeah, but that would be due to hyponatremia. Beer has sodium in it, so you aren't going to throw your brain chemistry out of whack.

Ahh. I thought since beer was predominantly water that it would be possible from it as well.

['Hamas' Jenkins]

Originally Posted by NewChief

Ahh. I thought since beer was predominantly water that it would be possible from it as well.

There's a small chance, but I don't think it's too likely.

An average beer has 14 mg of sodium. Multiply that by 64 and you end up with 896, about half your daily allotment of sodium. However, you have diluted that with about six gallons of 95% water.

You'd be on your way to water intoxication (ignoring the obvious alcohol effects), but you'd probably be alright.

[MahiMike]

I couldn't drink 100 waters. I'd be in the bathroom the whole time.

[ChiefRocka]

"After that day...Boggs never walked again"