Watch: Teary-eyed Boggs has No. 26 retired at Fenway Park

BOSTON - The 'chicken man' has lost a little of the shimmer from his trademark mustache over the years, but every pilgrimage Wade Boggs makes to Fenway Park still feels like old times for the Red Sox legend.

''I've come back home,'' Boggs said.

On Thursday night Boggs added to his cache of memories when the Red Sox retired his No. 26.

''Today is the final piece of my baseball puzzle,'' he said during the pregame ceremony.

Boggs became the 10th former player to have his number affixed to Fenway's right field facade. He joined Bobby Doerr, Joe Cronin, Johnny Pesky, Carl Yastrzemski, Ted Williams, Jim Rice, Carlton Fisk, Pedro Martinez and Jackie Robinson, whose No. 42 is retired throughout baseball.

Members of that team were on hand for Thursday's ceremony along with a few special guests, including Yastrzemski and Ryne Sandberg, who was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame along with Boggs in 2005.

''I never in my wildest dreams ever thought that any day could top July 31, 2005. Today just did,'' Boggs said.

When Boggs' number was officially revealed, he trembled with tears in eyes and clutched his face, pausing briefly to point toward the sky.

While it was Boggs' night, he caused a stir across social media Wednesday when wore his 1996 New York Yankees ring to the '86 team ceremony on Wednesday.

''When I put my hand over my heart and the center field camera zoomed in on it, you guys had a field day with it,'' Boggs said of the ring he says he wears every day.

He wore his Hall of Fame ring on Thursday.

''I'm proud of it,'' Boggs said of the '96 Yankees' ring. ''But I didn't feel like it was appropriate today being that it's my day, it's my number and everything like that. So I left it off.''