Jimmie Foxx in home run trot against the Senators

Title:: Jimmie Foxx in home run trot against the Senators
Description:: Boston Red Sox Jimmie Foxx crossing home plate after hitting a walk-off home run, as Washington Senators pitcher Joe Krakauskas (#12) and catcher Rick Ferrell (#8) leave the field at Fenway Park.
Photographer:: Jones, Leslie, 1886-1967
Date:: August 16, 1940
Format:: Photographs
Genre:: Film negatives
Portrait photographs
Location:: Boston Public Library
Arts Department
Collection (local):: Leslie Jones Collection
Series:: Sports: Identified [Baseball]
Subjects:: Baseball players
Baseball
Foxx, Jimmie
Fenway Park (Boston, Mass.)
Ferrell, Rick, 1905-1995
Washington Senators (Baseball team : 1901-1960)
Boston Red Sox (Baseball team)
Places:: Massachusetts > Suffolk (county) > Boston
Fenway Park
Extent:: 1 negative : film, black & white ; 4 x 5 in.
Permalink:: https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/sj139x308
Terms of Use:: Copyright (c) Leslie Jones.
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Notes:: Original data provided by Leslie Jones or the Boston Public Library on the negative or negative sleeve: Jimmie Foxx in home run trot against the Senators, August 1940.
Corrected date based on research by the Society for American Baseball Research, 2016.
Summary provided by the Society for American Baseball Research, 2016.
Image appears to show a walk-off home run, since the Senators are leaving the field as Foxx crosses home plate. On August 16, 1940, Jimmie Foxx hit a solo home run in the bottom of the 10th inning off pitcher Joe Krakauskas to give Boston a 7-6 win over the Senators (Society for American Baseball Research, 2016).
Accession #:: 08_06_036621

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