William Aloysius Foxen (May 31, 1879 in

Tenafly, New Jersey Tenafly () is a borough in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2020 census the borough had a population of 15,409,

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) was a professional baseball

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. He played in

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from 1908 to 1911 for the

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and

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