Jimmie Foxx Trades and Transactions

The Jimmie Foxx trades and transactions seen below include all known instances where Jimmie Foxx has been involved in a trade or transaction of any type as it relates to baseball.

"I was pitching one day when my glasses clouded up on me. I took them off to polish them. When I looked up to the plate, I saw Jimmie Foxx. The sight of him terrified me so much that I haven't been able to wear glasses since." - Lefty Gomez in The Story of the Oakland Athletics (Gordon Pueschner, Creative Education Publishers, 07/2007. Page 15)

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Jimmie Foxx
 
 
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Birth Name:   James Emory Foxx
Nickname:   Beast or Double X or Jimmie or Jimmy
Born On:   10-22-1907  (Libra)
Place of Birth Data Born In:   Sudlersville, Maryland
Year of Death Data Died On:   07-21-1967
Place of Death Data Died In:   Miami, Florida
Cemetery:   Flagler Memorial Park, Miami, Florida Click For Grave Photo
High School:   Sudlersville High School (Sudlersville, MD)
College:   None Attended
Batting Stances Chart Bats:   Right   Throwing Arms Chart Throws:   Right
Player Height Chart Height:   6-00   Player Weight Chart Weight:   195
First Game:   05-01-1925 (Age 17)
Last Game:   09-23-1945
Draft:   Not Applicable
Jimmie Foxx

Trades & Transactions

07-00-1924: Sold by Easton (Eastern Shore) to Philadelphia Athletics.
12-10-1935: Traded by Philadelphia Athletics (with Johnny Marcum) to Boston Red Sox for Gordon Rhodes.
06-01-1942: Claimed on waivers by Chicago Cubs from Boston Red Sox.
07-05-1944: Released by Chicago Cubs.
02-10-1945: Signed by Philadelphia Phillies.


Did you know that during the physical, if a team finds out that the player received during a trade is injured they may return the player to the originating team within ten days from the date the trade was made and void the entire contract?

The Baseball Almanac trades and transactions database includes Rule 5 Draft picks, free agency information, voided trades, waiver picks, expansion draft data, amateur draft data, player refusals, bonus babies, and many other types of not readily found anywhere on the Internet.

Baseball trades & transactions, like the Jimmie Foxx trades and transactions seen above, are an evolving field of research where new discoveries are often found and new player debuts are added to the data set almost daily.

     

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