Presented is a marvelous, unique opportunity to possess the offered Jimmie Foxx signed home run ball from what is most likely the longest home run of the Hall of Fame slugger's career. This one-of-a-kind ball dates from the game on June 16, 1936, at Chicago's Comiskey Park between Foxx's Boston Red Sox and the Chicago White Sox. This ball is accompanied by signed documentation from the original recipient. The White Sox defeated the Red Sox 4-2 that day, with both of the Boston runs coming on solo shots by "Double X," his 15th and 16th home runs of the year, his career 317th & 318th. It was the initial Foxx blast that day that, according to an article the next day in the Chicago Daily Tribune, that "was the brand that no other man has knocked at Comiskey Park, a sock over the roof of the left field grandstand." The report further adds, "Foxx, on surveying the flight of the ball after the game, remarked that it was the longest homer he ever hit. According to guards outside the park, the ball cleared the grandstand roof and came down in a handball court across 34th street. It traveled a block after coming down." The recipient of the ball, Luther Olsen, has provided a one-page signed, included letter detailing how he obtained the ball the next day. In full:

In the summer of 1936 I was working out with the White Sox and throwing batting practice. The Boston Red Sox came to Chicago and in one of the first games, Jimmy Foxx hit a ball over the left field pavilion, completely out of the baseball park. It was said at the time only two balls had been hit out of the park and Foxx had hit both of them. The next day as I reported to the park, Billie Webb who was White Sox coach, told me "I have a present for you," and gave me a ball and said, "here is the ball Jimmy hit out of the park." I took the ball and had Jimmy Foxx sign it. I did not mention what Billie Webb had told me because I wanted to take the ball home.

As detailed in the letter, Foxx granted Olsen's autograph request and signed the Official American League (Harridge) ball on the north panel. "The Beast's" signature, scripted by Foxx in blue, steel-tip fountain pen, grades 6/10. The ball, which is moderately soiled, displays appropriate game use, including a few nicks and abrasions - telltale signs of its journey out of the park and down the street. Foxx single-signed balls have always been highly desirable among autograph collectors, especially vintage examples signed during his playing career. The offered ball, not only being a home run ball, but most likely the longest of his career, represents possibly the finest Foxx single imaginable. Full LOA from JSA. A copy of the front page of the June 17, 1936, edition of the Chicago Daily Tribune and Luther L. Olsen's original letter, is included in the lot.

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