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DeanH3Ted,
According to the book "Sluggers!, Histories Heaviest Hitters" the story goes like this:
But one of Foxx's longest homers is the source of one of baseball's greatest stories. The date was June 25, 1932, and Foxx was on his way to slugging 58 homers and driving in 169 runs that year. Foxx was red-hot as he stepped in to face the witty Lefty Gomez. The catcher called every sign he could, and Lefty shook them all off. The catcher went through the signals again, but Lefty said no to everything.The catcher walked to the mound. "what do you want to throw?" he asked. "Nothing," Lefty said. "Let's just hang around here for a while. Maybe He'll get a long distance phone call." "Hell. let's just try to sneak a fastball past him." Lefty reluctantly agreed, and Foxx hit it a mile. Lefty said afterward that it took him 20 minutes just to walk out to the spot where Jimmie's blast had landed. When he got there, he saw the ball had broken the top half of a seat in the third tier of Yankee Stadium. Twenty more feet and it would have left the park completely.
Great Story