1926 Jimmie Foxx Game Used & Sidewritten Rookie Bat, PSA/DNA GU 10....

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The earliest known Foxx gamer!

1926 Jimmie Foxx Game Used & Sidewritten Rookie Bat, PSA/DNA GU 10. The press regarded Jimmie Foxx as "the most promising athletic prospect in the State of Maryland" after he set the state record in both the 80 and 220-yard dashes in 1923, but it was our national pastime that would catapult this prototypical "natural" to national and global fame. Fellow future Hall of Famer Frank "Home Run" Baker personally scouted the sturdy young star at a high school game and signed him in 1924 to the Class D level Easton (MD) Farmers team that he managed just thirty miles from Foxx' childhood home. Before the year was over, Baker sold Foxx to his own former manager Connie Mack, supplying the Philadelphia Athletics with a key component in the team's second great dynasty that would dominate the earliest years of the Great Depression.

The subject signature model Hillerich & Bradsby exhibits outstanding game use from Double X's very earliest days of service to the white elephants, that attribution assured by the specific center brand format, the dimensions of length and weight, and the planing of the barrel for the application of factory sidewriting (no longer legible). From these details, the experts at PSA/DNA were able to identify this bat as the one listed in the H&B Professional Bat Ordering Records (PBOR) for Foxx as "His 6-25-26," thus the genetic forebear for subsequent orders placed in 1926 and 1927.

PSA/DNA identifies the subject bat as deriving from the very first order of Foxx signature model bats, dated April 10, 1926 as model "For Welch 5-2-24, 37 oz." This would surely refer to Frank Welch, who represented the A's between 1919 and 1927 and apparently lent a bat that Foxx liked to his new teenaged teammate. The thirty-six-inch (36") length and current weight of thirty-five and a half ounces (35.5 oz.) are consistent with that April 1926 order.

Beyond the monumental importance supplied by its status as the earliest Foxx bat, the gorgeous war club is coated with ball marks and bears a handle crack tacked down with a nail for its return to Louisville, suggesting that much if not all of the offensive production of Foxx' first dozen or so games of 1926 appear upon its resume. This is quite likely the very first signature model bat that Jimmie Foxx ever used. LOA from PSA/DNA, GU 10.