Gimme 5: Eaton’s Got Bugles and Bat Speed

Hall of Famer Wade Boggs ate chicken before each game in his professional baseball career. The superstitious behavior worked for Boggs, who won five batting titles, collected 3,010 hits and batted .328 in his 18-year career.

Lincoln-Way North senior third baseman Alex Eaton usually eats Bugles before each game. Cheaper than chicken and crunchier, it’s worked for the Phoenix cleanup hitter. Eaton entered played this week hitting at a .471 clip with 44 RBIs, 32 runs, 48 hits, 13 doubles, three home runs with an on-base percentge of .513 and a .725 slugging percentage. (Statistical information regarding the number of Bugles he's consumed this spring is unavailable.)

Eaton will look to take the Phoenix for a deep post-season run before taking his bat and glove down to Joliet where he’ll play next spring for Joliet Junior College.

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