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Third baseman Wade Boggs of the Boston Red Sox was cut in the neck and threatened by a man at knifepoint in Gainesville, Fla., police said.
The inch-long cut was not serious enough to warrant medical attention, Boggs said.
“I knew the situation was going to get hairy,” Boggs told The Gainesville Sun from his Tampa home. “Luckily, no one was seriously injured. It was a volatile situation that could have grown into something big.”
Police charged George Young Jr., 23, with armed burglary and two counts of aggravated battery. Edward Benjamin Cox, 31, was charged with aggravated assault and carrying a concealed weapon.
Boggs, 30, said he was in his Jeep outside a Gainesville bar showing a recently purchased 9mm handgun to two friends when two men blocked them with their vehicle, according to police spokeswoman Lt. Sadie Darnell.
Police said Young got out of the car carrying a knife, and Cox waved a .44-caliber revolver at Boggs and his friends.
Boggs was cut before police, summoned by a friend of Boggs, Chuck Hollowell, arrived to make the arrests.
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