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Down Memory Lane with the Foxx Family

By David Jordan   In the summer of 1924, Connie Mack purchased from the Easton club of the Eastern Shore League the contract of a broad-shouldered, muscular 16-year-old catcher named Jimmie Foxx. Foxx, a farm boy from Sudlersville, on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, was recommended to Mack by his former Hall of Fame third baseman, Frank […]