Show me your Foxx, catcher

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Posted By: identify7

Less than 10% of Foxx's games were spent behind the plate, hovever, it seems to me that a disproportionate number of his cards show him in catcher's gear. Could it be that he wanted to be remembered as a catcher?

You gotta like his R311 pose - he never looked more beastly. I wish I could post my example of this.

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Posted By: Jerry

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Posted By: Ted Zanidakis

I recall as a kid, hearing that Jimmy Foxx almost hit a baseball out
of Yankee Stadium. He batted Righthanded and supposedly he came
within a few feet of sending it out in the upper deck, Left Field section
of the stadium.
Given the "death valley" dimensions of LF in the old Yankee Stadium,
this tremendous HR probably would have traveled 600+ feet. Does anyone
on this Forum know or have more information on this HR by Foxx ?

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Posted By: fkw

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Posted By: DeanH3

Ted,

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

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Posted By: Mike Campbell

I have a fantastic wire photo of Cronin and Foxx in the dugout, with Jimmie completely covered in catchers gear. A close up of both. Now if only if I could figure out how to scan items, life would truly be perfect. I did get lucky and got my George C. Miller Foxx onto the 30's card thread 10 days ago or so. But that has been it. I will keep trying. Just maybe...

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Posted By: s falletti

Jerry, Gorgeous Diamond Star. Sending it out (or selling) anytime soon?

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Posted By: Ted Zanidakis

DeanH3

Thanks for confirming what I heard about Foxx's HR blast
in my youth.

Dean....you will get a "kick" out of this when I tell you
whom I heard this story from....Dizzy Dean (who, back in
the 1950's with Mel Allen, was the TV comentator on the
Yankee games.....this is what you call a real coincidence.

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Posted By: Mark Tylicki

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