Jimmy Foxx, who has been dividing his time between first base and catching for the Athletics since Micky Cochrane became manager of Detroit, is one of the rare "finds" about which managers dream, a country boy who has a natural batting gift. Foxx was raised in Maryland on his father's dairy farm, where he helped with the milking. He credits much of his enormous strength of wrist, by which he gets his great distance, to this early exercise. He has hit 58 homeruns in a single season, two less than Ruth's record, and is counted as the most likely man in the game today to break Babe's homerun mark.