Hitting 5th at 1B ...

Jimmie Foxx (1936 - 1942)

Home run champ 1939

Batting and RBI Champ 1938

AL MVP 1938

Baseball Hall of Fame 1951

Probably my most difficult decision to make was first base. Yaz (in 2 of his 23 seasons he played over 100 games at 1B) and Ortiz both played games there but not enough. When considering Red Sox careers, Mo Vaughn did have the numbers to match Foxx. The nod goes to Foxx because he was simply the better player.

Jimmie Foxx came to the Sox after playing for the Philadelphia A's for 11 years (2 AL MVP awards and a triple crown season in 1933). In six Beantown seasons he hit 222 homers, drove in 788 runs and batted .320. In his MVP season of 1938 he hit 50 homers, drove in 175 runs and batted .349. Foxx barely missed his second triple crown that year (Detroit's Hank Greenberg hit 58 homers).

Obviously, I never watched a game that Foxx played. His overall numbers dominate those of Mo Vaughn's. Foxx went on to be elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1951. This is a honor that Mo will never receive.