Jimmie Foxx
- Philadelphia Athletics (1925-1935)
- Boston Red Sox (1936-1942)
- Chicago Cubs (1942, 1944)
- Philadelphia Phillies (1945 )
- 9 × All-Star (1933, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1941)
- 2 × World Series champion (1929, 1930)
- 3 × AL MVP (1932, 1933, 1938)
- 1933 Triple Crown champion
James " Jimmie " Foxx Emory ( born October 22, 1907 in Sudlersville, Maryland, † July 21, 1967 in Miami, Florida) was an American baseball player in Major League Baseball. His nickname was The Beast and Double X.
Biography
Jimmie Foxx grew up in Maryland on a farm and had there his father in the resulting work help. He played in his high school baseball, where he made Home Run Baker attention to itself. This recommended him to his former boss Connie Mack, who then took him for the Philadelphia Athletics under contract. Foxx was used as a catcher, first baseman or outfielder as, but its common position should be that of the first baseman. His debut in the American League, he was on 1 May 1925.
1928 Foxx was a regular player and soon became known as the right-handed Babe Ruth known. In 1929, he had a batting average of 35.4 % and hit 33 homers. From 1929 to 1931 he was able to win three times with the Athletics the championship of the AL. 1929 and 1930 was his team success in the World Series.
1932 Foxx hit 58 home runs, a new record for right-handed hitters. This record should be broken by Mark McGwire with 70 homers in 1998. This year, Foxx was also elected MVP of the AL. In 1933, he won the Triple Crown for batsmen with a batting average of 35.6 %, 153 RBI and 48 home runs. Also in this year he was able to win the MVP title.
1936 sold the financially weak Athletics Jimmie Foxx of the Boston Red Sox. In Boston he could win his third title in 1938 as MVP. He hit 50 home runs, had a batting average of 34.9 % and 175 RBI. Only in the Home Runs Hank Greenberg was placed at 58 in front of him.
In 1942 he moved to the Chicago Cubs in the National League. In 1943 he announced his retirement, but returned again in 1944 to the Cubs, where he often helped out as Einwechselschlagmann. A last change of club undertook Foxx then 1945., He returned to Philadelphia, but was now playing for the Phillies. In his last season he played as a first and third baseman, Einwechselschlagmann and was used in nine games even as a pitcher. Unlike Babe Ruth, the Foxx has often been compared, who had begun his career as a pitcher, she finished Foxx on the reverse path.
After 20 years, Jimmie Foxx had 2317 games in Major League denied, 534 home runs and 1922 RBI hit and reached a career batting average of 32.5 %. His twelve seasons with 30 or more home runs were a record that Barry Bonds could improve until 2004. He was the second player after Ruth, who could surpass the mark of 500 home runs.
After his playing career, he worked as a manager and coach in minor league baseball, and in the women's baseball league. The role of Jimmy Dugan in the baseball film A League of Their based in large part on Jimmie Foxx. In 1951 he was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame. 1967 Foxx died at the age of 59 years, probably due to suffocation on swallowing a bone.