Answer to Tuesday’s Trivia
The answer to Tuesday’s Trivia, which Red Sox hit the most home runs in
a single season, how many, and in which season?
Answer: David Ortiz hit 54 home runs in 2006 to surpass Jimmie Foxx as the Red Sox single-season home run champion.
Foxx hit 50 HRs for the Red Sox in the 1938 season – though that was not his single-season high. He hit 58 HRs in 1932 as a member of the Philadelphia Athletics.
Ortiz had come close to reaching Foxx during the 2005 season, when he finished with 47 round-trippers.
Red Sox 1027 
Can I get an asterisk next to that 2006 season, please?
Where is Ford Frick when you need him?
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Think he was pumped up, eh?
It doesn’t really matter if Ortiz was juiced, pumped or so full of PED’s it burst the buttons on his uniform…. Foxx, as great a slugger as he was probably wouldn’t have remembered the ’38 season let alone the ’32 season as he was a notorious drinker… as was pretty much every other HOF’er of that era. Easily explains why he was one of Tom Yawkey’s ‘boys’.
Foxx gets the statistical nod because that asterisk will hang over Big Papi for life. Ortiz takes the sentimental nod because… well, I wasn’t alive to see Foxx play (especially alongside ‘The Kid’) and he didn’t deliver us a title… he did however provide Tom Hanks some great material in ‘A League of Their Own’.
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Sure would’ve been fun to watch a lineup featuring Foxx and Williams! Hadn’t known that about Foxx – though I’m suspecting in those times that was not uncommon.