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  Walter Johnson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Johnson was a better-than-average hitter for a pitcher, compiling a career batting average of.235.
One of the first five electees to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1936, Walter Johnson retired in Germantown, Maryland and was elected Montgomery County commissioner in 1938.
Johnson's gentle nature was legendary, and to this day he is held up as an example of good sportsmanship and his name has become synonymous with friendly competition.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Walter_Johnson   (958 words)

  
 Walter Johnson High School - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Walter Johnson High School was founded in 1956 as part of the Montgomery County Public School system (MCPS).
The school is named in honor of the late Washington Senators' baseball pitcher, Walter Johnson, who resided in his Bethesda house just a few short miles away from the school on Old Georgetown Road.
Walter Johnson High School was rated as one of "America's Best High Schools" by Newsweek magazine and was named the 45th best public high school in the nation for 2004.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Walter_Johnson_High_School   (582 words)

  
 ESPN Classic - The Big Train kept on chuggin'
In 1936, Johnson was part of the elite first group of players to be voted into the Hall of Fame, with Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb, Honus Wagner and Christy Mathewson being his companions.
Johnson was 19, working for the telephone company in Idaho in 1907 and burning up a semipro baseball league when he was spotted by someone.
Johnson was not an immediate success, going 5-9, 14-14 and 13-25 in his first three seasons, with the Senators finishing last twice and seventh once.
espn.go.com /classic/biography/s/Johnson_Walter.html   (1270 words)

  
 P.C.'s Quiz Walter Johnson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Johnson was one of the five original inductees to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1936.
Noted as a gentleman in a rough and tumble era of sports, Walter Johnson was a great American sports hero and a role model for baseball fans of his era..
While Walter Johnson was pitching his way to the Hall of Fame in Washington, Johnson City residents were enjoying a stirring brand of semi-pro baseball at the National Soldiers Home as evidenced by the photo below.
www.jcedb.org /history/henry/walter.htm   (173 words)

  
 Bailey Hotel, Walter Johnson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Walter Perry Johnson was born Nov. 6, 1887, to Swedish emigrants on a rural farm four miles west of Humboldt in Allen County.
Johnson's best season came in 1913, when he achieved a 36-7 win-loss record with 11 shutouts and a 1.14 earned run average.
Johnson and the Washington Senators won the World Series in 1924, the same year another Humboldt native, George A. Sweatt, helped the Kansas City Monarchs win the Negro World Series.
www.thebaileyhotel.com /Johnson_Sweatt/johnson.html   (369 words)

  
 PlanetPapers - Walter Johnson - a Pitcher
Walter Johnson was born in 1887 in a small town called Humboldt,Ks.
Johnson had never won a World Series game in his life and it was his dream of being able to do so but he was getting old and he knew this would probably be his last chance to win one.
Johnson retired in 1927 at the age of 40, he had spent 21 years on probably the worst team in baseball and come out the best pitcher ever in the game.
www.planetpapers.com /Assets/1220.php   (541 words)

  
 Walter Johnson
Johnson was a reserved, humble man, who didn't drink, smoke or swear and was always a popular figure wherever he went.
Johnson accepted and on July 22, he departed on a train headed for the big leagues.
Johnson allows 1 hit, fans 9 and has a double and a run scored on the historic day.
www.daveyball.com /MeetthePlayers/JohnsonW.htm   (1199 words)

  
 TheDeadballEra.com :: Nice Guys: Walter Johnson
In a time when Christy Mathewson was the King of Pitchers and a national hero to millions, Walter Johnson toiled in Washington DC for a second division team.
Johnson was loved and revered by his buddy Ty Cobb, who would frequently come over to the Johnson house for visits.
Walter Johnson died from a brain tumor at the young age of 59 on Tuesday, December 10th, 1946.
www.thedeadballera.com /NiceGuys_Johnson_Walter.htm   (781 words)

  
 Walter Johnson: Scholar of Swedish Literature
Walter Johnson was a world-renowned scholar of Swedish author August Strindberg, and served as editor of a UW Press series on Strindberg.
Johnson opened up new directions for the study of Strindberg's works by making his historical dramas available to an international audience in the 1950s and 1960s.
Although Johnson was an internationally famous scholar, many colleagues point out he never neglected what he saw as his first vocation, that of being a teacher and mentor to his students.
www.washington.edu /research/showcase/1948b.html   (570 words)

  
 Baseball Great Walter Johnson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Johnson (1889-1946) was broken up himself; later accounts tell of him shedding tears over the dramatic loss.
Johnson occasionally mixed in a curve or a bender, but the blinding fastball was his preferred pitch.
Johnson remained among the top pitchers in the league, but his fastball was slightly diminished.
www.alphaimports.com /models/Walter.htm   (1162 words)

  
 Colorado State Governor Walter Johnson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Walter W. Johnson was born April 16, 1904, in Pueblo, Colorado, where he attended public schools until 1919 when he graduated from Pueblo Central High School.
Johnson's flair for promotion inspired him next to establish the Walter W. Johnson Agency in 1930, for the purpose of developing the property around the Minnequa Heights sector of Pueblo.
Johnson entered into politics as a Pueblo School Board member in 1937, and was chairman of the board from 1939 to 1943.
www.colorado.gov /dpa/doit/archives/govs/wjohns.html   (814 words)

  
 Walter Johnson | The BASEBALL Page
Johnson is the greatest player to ever play for the Washington Senators, debuting on August 2, 1907, against the Detroit Tigers and Ty Cobb.
Johnson was the manager of Newark, and appeared in one game, facing one batter, whom he walked.
Griffith vowed to "sue Johnson to the end of the earth." Claiming he had the rights to the pitcher for both the 1915 and 1916 seasons, and that the Federal League contract was illegal.
www.thebaseballpage.com /players/johnswa01.php   (1799 words)

  
 About Walter Johnson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Walter Johnson tells it like it is and doesn't hold anything back in all of his information packed books, courses, and websites.
Walter knows and sees how much marketing hype and sizzle is all over the internet so he does the opposite of what most other marketers are doing.
Walter proves to you what an excellent marketer he is and how much knowledge he has before he ever tries to sell you anything.
www.casino411.org /walterjohnson.html   (360 words)

  
 Walter Johnson Biography / Biography of Walter Johnson Biography
Unlike most pitchers of his era, he refused to knock down opposing batters with inside pitches and was a model of gentlemanly refinement both on and off the field.
The 6-foot-1, 200-pound Johnson won 416 games in his 21 seasons from 1907 to 1927 and compiled a remarkable 2.17 earned run average.
Johnson won 20 or more games in 12 seasons and set the all-time career mark for shutouts with 110.
www.bookrags.com /biography-walter-johnson   (235 words)

  
 Walter Johnson | BaseballLibrary.com
Johnson relieves Bob Groom at the end of the 9th, and pitches 10 innings of scoreless relief.
Johnson is presented with a silver cup filled with 10-dollar bills ($674) and returns the favor with a 3—2 win over Detroit, his 24th win of the year.
A rattled Johnson then allows four runs in the first inning, two runs on a 2-run homer by George Burns, and another four through the 6th inning to lose (he will be 17—2 at home this year).
baseballlibrary.com /baseballlibrary/ballplayers/J/Johnson_Walter.stm   (11387 words)

  
 Walter Johnson - Air Cargo Industry Pioneer
Walter was an active supporter of TIACA and an authoritative speaker, writer and researcher who used his expertise and knowledge to help promote the progress the worldwide air cargo industry.
Walter Johnson spent nearly 30 years serving on TIACA’S Air Cargo Forum (ACF) committee and later as a member of TIACA's Executive Council and Board of Directors.
Walter is survived by his wife of 57 years, Marcelle, his four children, Gina, Hank, Kevin and Bruce and 18 grandchildren.
www.tiaca.org /articles/2001/10/18/C849E27033754BC3914CC767D66F5245.asp   (810 words)

  
 Coffeyville Community College - Walter Johnson Park
Construction of the field began in the summer of 1998 and was completed in the spring of 1999 with the installation of tournament lighting and grandstand seating.
Walter Johnson died on Dec. 10, 1946 in Washington, DC.
Walter Johnson Park is located on the far east side of Coffeyville near the fairgrounds.
www.ccc.cc.ks.us /athletics/baseball/wjpark.htm   (212 words)

  
 Walter C. Johnson
In 1973, Johnson became Executive Director of the Naperville Park District in Illinois, a fast-growing Chicago suburb.
Johnson has been a Rotarian for over 30 years and includes fishing, photography, and international travel among his many hobbies.
Walter Johnson provides an interesting discussion of his childhood growing up on a farm in Illinois that contributed to his love of land, nature, and trees and educational experiences with drama and music and interest in golf have prepared him well for the Park and Recreation Profession.
www.rpts.tamu.edu /Legends/Johnson.htm   (663 words)

  
 Walter E. Johnson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Walter Ellsworth Johnson, 72, died in a Philadelphia hospital.
Johnson held the American Duration Record for 1912 for pilot and passenger --- 3 hours and 51 minutes.
He is survived by three children, Walter Jr, of Texas; Robert S. of Haddenfield, N. J.; and Elizabeth E. Harrison of Philadelphia; and four grandchildren.
www.rcooper.0catch.com /ejohnwal.htm   (211 words)

  
 The baseball career of Walter Johnson
Walter Johnson won more games than any pitcher in the 20th century and was one of the first five players elected to the Hall of Fame in 1936.
Walter “The Big Train” Johnson (1887 - 1946) was an amazing pitcher, not just because of the numbers that he put up during his 21-year career with the Washington Senators, but because he put up those numbers on Senator teams that were very rarely any good.
In 1924, with the long-overdue support of teammates, Johnson lead the Senators to their first pennant ever by leading the American League in four major categories that season: wins, winning percentage, ERA, and strikeouts.
ks.essortment.com /walterjohnson_rrdy.htm   (322 words)

  
 Walter Johnson
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Foul Play at Cooperstown; Walter Johnson, the greatest Senator Washington ever knew, bequeathed a priceless collection of Opening Day baseballs to the Baseball Hall of Fame.
www.infoplease.com /ipsa/A0109327.html   (248 words)

  
 Walter R. Johnson
Johnson, H. Ho, Carol E. Tanner and Andrei Derevianko, Phys.
Johnson, C. Guet, and G. Bertsch, Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy & Radiative Transfer, in press, (2005).
Analysing the dramatic impact of the bound electron contribution to the index of refraction in plasmas, Joseph Nilsen and W. Johnson, submitted to Phys.
www.nd.edu /~johnson   (1004 words)

  
 CV for Walter W. Johnson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Johnson, W. W., and Kaiser, M. Perspective imagery in synthetic scenes used to control and guide aircraft during landing and taxi: Some issues and concerns.
Johnson, W. and Schroeder, J. Visual-motion cueing in the control of altitude.
Johnson, W.W. and Awe., C.A. Use of optical edge and optical flow rate information in the perception and control of ground velocity.
vision.arc.nasa.gov /IHH/Resume/johnson.htm   (1036 words)

  
 THE CALIFORNIA COMET - Introduction
Hank is Walter's grandson and lives in Washington, D.C., while Chuck is a more distant relative who lives in Anaheim, not far from the scenes of many of Walter Johnson's early pitching exploits.
The recorded evidence of Walter Johnson's seminal ballplaying years has been buried for nearly a century within the pages of a dozen or so small-town newspapers, long gone and of little interest to baseball history buffs.
But considering Walter Johnson's place in baseball's pantheon, the circumstances of his development in the game are certainly worthy of exposure and analysis.
cwcfamily.org /wj/cc0.htm   (969 words)

  
 Walter Johnson Baseball Stats by Baseball Almanac
Walter Johnson was born on Sunday, November 6, 1887, in Humboldt, Kansas.
Johnson was 19 years old when he broke into the big leagues on August 2, 1907, with the Washington Senators.
His biographical data, year-by-year hitting stats, fielding stats, pitching stats (where applicable), career totals, uniform numbers, salary data and miscellaneous items-of-interest are presented by Baseball Almanac on this comprehensive Walter Johnson baseball stats page.
www.baseball-almanac.com /players/player.php?p=johnswa01   (303 words)

  
 WALTER JOHNSON
Walter Johnson was born in 1805, in Hawkins county, Tennessee.
Johnson always spoke of him as “Old Dad.” They entered into a partnership and engaged in buying groceries and provisions in Sacramento and conveying them over the mountains with pack mules or burros.
Johnson took the world easy, had great faith in humanity, and was a man who had many friends.
www.usgennet.org /usa/il/county/warren/walter_johnson.html   (962 words)

  
 Walter Johnson --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Mondale, Walter F. 42nd vice president of the United States (1977–81) in the administration of President Jimmy Carter and Democratic candidate for president in 1984.
A liberal with a respected history in the Democratic party, U.S. public official Walter F. Mondale was chosen to be the vice-presidential running mate of Jimmy Carter in his successful 1976 presidential campaign.
Johnson used perseverance and desire to overcome his lack of height to excel in the NBA.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-9043872?tocId=9043872   (642 words)

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