Dave accepted an invitation to the Tidy Bowl by saying:
 DN> Speed is fairly important fromt the number one spot.  I'd take a guy
 DN> hitting .290 over a .310 boggs if the the former had blazing speed and
 DN> didn't throw firecrackers at fans.. (for leadoff spots only!!)
Don't ever under-estimate the worth of a guy like Boggs. I don't know how far 
you go back but Boggs-like hitters used to be the rule and not the exception. 
Boggs gets on base a heck of a lot more than a lot of ".290" speedsters. If 
you look at how many runs he scored AS a leadoff hitter, you'd be 
hard-pressed to find some of those *weenies* that did as well as he did (and 
that's even taking Fenway into consideration).
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