Word: foxx
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...three consecutive years, Kiner has hit 40 or more home runs, thus set a mark never equaled by such sluggers as Rogers Hornsby, Jimmie Foxx and Joe DiMaggio. Furthermore, the 26-year-old pride of Pittsburgh seemed to be improving with age. One night last week, with 50 homers to his credit, he stepped to the plate with 11,881 fans howling for him to hit another. With the National League's home-run record of 56 (set by Hack Wilson back in 1930) so close and time so short, Kiner's big problem was to keep from...
...Manila. In his 49 years in Philadelphia he won nine pennants (the last in 1931) and five World Series, trained a roster of greats whose names still make old fans' eyes gleam-Rube Waddell, Chief Bender, Frank ("Home Run") Baker, Eddie Collins, Lefty Grove, Mickey Cochrane, Jimmy Foxx, Al Simmons...
...baseball history only four men-Babe Ruth, Jimmy Foxx, Hack Wilson and Hank Greenberg-had hit 50 home runs in one season. Last week, with eight games of the season still left, a tall young ex-Navy pilot named Ralph Kiner became the fifth. He banged No. 50 into the left-field Scoreboard at Pittsburgh's Forbes Field, which put him one up on the New York Giants' Big John Mize (TIME, Aug. 25) in the race to be 1947's home-run king. Mize became the sixth to make the 50 Club two days later...
...could talk for three days on some of the injustices done to ball players by the club owners," said Murphy. A soft-spoken lawyer in his middle thirties, he talked with a perceptible. New England accent of Connie Mack's offer to cut Jimmy Foxx's salary from $18,000 to $12,000 after the 1933 season, the second consecutive year that Foxx had run off with the most valuable player honors in the American League...
Should the Army call Infielder Phil (109 double plays) Rizzuto and Outfielder Tom my (31 home runs) Henrich, the Yankees may have trouble. The trouble would probably come from a pair of Sox. The Boston Red Sox still have foxy Jimmy Foxx and young Ted (.406) Williams, who can break up any ball game. The Chicago White Sox have the league's best pitching staff, headed by Lefty Thornton Lee, a 22-game winner last year...