I've mentioned this before but Foxx was my Dads' favorite player. One of Dad's jobs in junior high and high school was to care for the field at Whittington Park in Hot Springs where the Ray Doan Baseball School was held each February and March.
Foxx was often an instructor there before heading to Florida. Dad said he was a wonderful gentleman and would pitch to the young workers and hit to them for fielding practice after the school let our each day. One year as he was leaving he gave Dad a Heinie Manush glove as a gift.
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