The Washington times., 1935-12-12
AnOH,Old
Baseball
Story!
BY KIRK MILLER
Times Sports Editor

SSSSl "4SNSs
It has to do with a ball
player who damns his destiny
at being detoured to a new
dugout; who is surprised that
he was even for sale, and who
hasn't always inwardly ad-
mired his new owner, manager or
bat boy, and otherwise yearned
for years to play for the city Of
his recent adoption because he al
ways thought the fans of that
town the fairest of any location
In the league.
An Ideal Reaction
How much more exciting read.
ing, and, better winter speculation
for the fans, for instance, it would
have made had Jimmy Foxxs re.
action to his sale to the Red Sox
this week been something like
this:
Sold down the river to the REQ
Sox, Ell!
I'm dumbfounded!
"T'll never report to Boston!
There isn't enough money in
baseball to pay me to play there.
Il don't have to play baseball.
can make a swell living farming.
I'll never speak to Connie Mack
again, the old reprobate. selling
me to a tank town like that after
all these years I've given to the
AS doing everything except take
tickets! Why. never dreamed he
would ever put a price tag on
me. I am positively crushed"
But no, the typewriter tech,
nicianS who hover so close to the
game for seven months of the
year to reflect the reactions of the
people who are baseball. are never
rewarded with anything but milk
and honey when long and
loved baseball association is rent
aSunder.
The Man Who Was Different
Anent the sale of Jimmy Foxx, !
expected a bit more spicy com.
ment from him, if for no other
reason than that he is a very un.
usual individual. Any man who
can do so many things on base
ball diamond as can he, you
naturally expect to be different.
read that when Foxx was
informed of his sale to Boston Che
has only known the transfer was
in the bag since last october 23)
he jumped up on the piano, leaped
over to the chandelier, did a
double back flop to the parlor
divan, Rugged his wife and baby
poking in a sly kiss or two the
while and went whooping around
his Arlington home like a Conan
che indian, so wild with elatior
was he that he at last was un
leashed from the degradation that
is and has been the Philadelphia
Athletics of late years.
Then he is quoted as declaring
between tears of excruciating joy
as hundreds of transfereeS before
him have been quoted:
"Oh, boy, oh boy; what
break! never even suspected it!
Who said there isn't any Santa
Claus. Gosh, I just can't wait
until the season opens! Man. Oh
man, isn't that what the doctor
ordered"
Well, If Jimmy Foxx did say
that he may not be so screwy a.
the narrators of that domestic
scene unwittingly made him ap
pear.
Fenway Park. with its short left
field fence, ought to be pushoVer
for Jimmy during IT home game
route. If any of the moderns will
ever be able to equal or better
Babe Ruth's home run record
Foxx stands in good light to dc
so now if he hangs around lone
In a Red Sox uniform.
But drifted away from my
theme.
Imagine This. Please
The telephone in the Foxx home
stead rings. Jimmy leaps to the
contraption, and if you car
imagine it, this ensueS:
yea, sure, yea! Oh, Mr.. Yaw
kew! Yea, sure, tickled pink
what? Certainly! It's great! Nc
other city in the world like it
best baseball town in the loop
Fans always treated me swell
there, We should be in there mex
world series and I'll hit a million
for you. Yea, sure, great httlt
fellow. Best manager in baSeba!
and I've always wanted to be viii
him. Say hello to him for me- vii
y'u. Thanks boss; don't WORT
about that!"
Then turning to his interviewer
"Aw, Shucks, I kinda hate u
leave the AS. They've been m!
idols since I was barefoot XII
plantin' potatoes down at Sudlers
vile. Man and boy Philly ma
been pretty swell. I'll never for
get those three world series. Why
shuckS, Connie Mack'S been like
grandpappy to me. But life L
like that-kind of a book-you g
through one chapter and thel
pass over to the next. Say, is !
true Yawkey's got all that dough
they say he has?"
A ball player, YOU see, Is JUS
Shat-nothtng less -.