Box Score of 500th Home Run by Jimmie Foxx

"Double X" was only the second slugger to join the elite five-hundred home runs club and the youngest member ever.
"When I looked up at 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
Jimmie Foxx

500th Home Run Box Score
September 24, 1940
Shibe Park

Name Pos AB R H RBI
Dom DiMaggio cf 6 1 2 1
Roger Cramer rf 6 3 2 1
Ted Williams lf 6 2 3 3
Jimmie Foxx 1b 5 2 2 1
Tony Lupien 1b 1 0 1 1
Joe Cronin ss 5 3 4 3
Tom Carey ss 1 0 0 0
Bobby Doerr 2b 6 3 3 0
Jim Tabor 3b 4 1 2 3
Charlie Gelbert 3b 0 0 0 0
Johnny Peacock c 5 1 3 1
Joe Heving p 3 0 1 1
Totals 48 16 23 15

Name Pos AB R H RBI
Dee Miles cf 5 1 3 1
Elmer Valo lf 5 2 3 0
Wally Moses rf 5 2 3 0
Hal Wagner c 4 1 3 3
Dick Siebert 1b 5 0 1 1
Benny McCoy 2b 5 1 0 0
Joe Gantenbein 3b 4 1 1 2
Jack Wallaesa ss 4 0 1 0
Ed Heusser p 0 0 0 0
George Caster p 1 0 0 0
Les McCrabb p 1 0 0 0
a-Bill Lillard ph 1 0 0 0
Totals 40 8 15 7

Hitting & Fielding Notes

a: Batted for Heusser in 3rd inning.

Double Play: Wallaesa-McCoy-Siebert, Carey-Lupien.
Doubles: Cramer, Tabor, DiMaggio, Cronin, Peacock.
Errors: Foxx, Miles, Moses, Siebert.
Home Runs: Williams 2, Cronin 2, Foxx, Tabor.
Triples: Miles, Wagner, DiMaggio, Doerr, Lupien.
Line Score
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Boston 0 2 3 2 1 7 0 0 1 16 23 1
Philadelphia 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 5 0 8 15 3

Name IP H R ER BB SO
Joe Heving 9 15 8 7 0 3

Name IP H R ER BB SO
Ed Heusser 3.0 7 5 5 1 0
George Caster 2.1 10 8 8 1 1
Les McCrabb 3.2 6 3 2 0 4

Pitching Notes

Losing Pitcher: Heusser.
Winning Pitcher: Heving.

Game Notes

Attendance: Unknown.
Doubleheader: Boston won game two 4-3.
Length of Game: Unknown.
Umpires: Geisel, Quinn, Grieve.


Three sluggers from the 500 Home Runs Club were thirty-four years old when they became members, but did you know that Jimmie Foxx was only thirty-two?

Jimmie Foxx won the Most Valuable Player Award eight years earlier (1932), then followed up that season by winning the Triple Crown!

"The Beast" hit two-hundred ninety-nine home runs at home, two-hundred thirty-five home runs on the road, and is an undefeated pitcher!
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