The Red Sox have had a perpetual hunt since Tom Yawkey “purchased” Jimmie Foxx from the Philadelphia Athletics. Foxx had an appropriate nickname “The Beast” since he was right-handed power personified. Foxx had held the Red Sox single-season home run record (50) until David Ortiz knocked out 54.
Fenway Park’s attractive left field has long created a thirst for acquiring right-handed sluggers who could take full advantage of the “short porch.” Sometimes it was a rousing success such as Manny Ramirez and other times a total bust such as getting Ron Jackson (who?