Word: foxx
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year ahead of Lupien on the minor league ladder leading to Boston is one Paul Campbell, plucked off the North Carolina campus. Campbell spent last year in Louisville and did a corking job at first base. Then, of course, there is always a fellow named Foxx on hand when the Back Bay Bombers trek south for the opening practices...
...tryout with the Red Sox at the tail-end of last season he batted .316 in 19 games. Not the least perturbed last week Rookie Williams drawled: "There is only one man on the Boston club who can hit them further than me. That's Jimmy Foxx.* And I'm not so sure he can sometimes...
...Foxx hit 50 homers last year and batted in 175 runs...
Last week the baseball writers made their selections: Jimmy Foxx of the Boston Red Sox (in the American League), and Ernie Lombardi of the Cincinnati Reds (in the National). For big-nosed, slow-footed, 220-lb. Catcher Lombardi, who guided Rookie Pitcher Johnny Vander Meer through his two famed no-hit games last summer and outbatted (.342) every other player in the league this season, it was his first taste of fame in eight years of banging around the National League...
First Baseman Foxx, who turned in the outstanding feat of the year-50 home-runs, 174 runs driven in and a batting average of .349-nonchalantly added this year's trophy to two others he has at home. Most valuable in 1932 and 1933 (when he was with the Athletics), Slugger Foxx, who was last year considered a has-been, last week became the first three-time No. 1 man since the poll was started...