Jimmie Foxx was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1951. He chose to wear a Boston cap on his plaque even though he spent the majority of his career with the Philadelphia Athletics. For a shade over six seasons (1936- thirty games into the 1942 season) he played at Fenway and it was quite a run.
The man could hit. But he was more than your classic high-home-runs-high-strike-out masher (in 1933 with Philadelphia, he won the triple crown). His best season in Boston (although, the rest weren't anything to sneeze at) was in 1938. That year he hit fifty home runs (the team single season record until Papi hit fifty-four in 2006) and hit to the tune of .349, striking out only seventy-six times. On top of that he lead the league in walks (119) and drove in 175 runs. He collected his third AL MVP that year.
Plus, he seems to have had extremely blue Steve McQueen/Michael Bowden eyes.
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