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Walter Johnson
Pitcher

1907-27 Washington Senators

  • Won 417 games, second only to Cy Young in career victories.

  • Pitched 110 shutouts, a major league record.

  • Won an MVP award in 1913 when he went 36-7 with a 1.12 ERA, 243 strikeouts, and 12 shutouts.

  • Had a 2.16 career ERA, a major league record for pitchers with more than 2,000 innings pitched.

  • Went 23-7 in 1924 to win a second MVP award as he led the Washington Senators to their first World Series ever. Johnson then won Game 7 for the Senators by pitching four scoreless innings of relief against the Giants. The Senators appeared in their only other World Series the next year against the Pirates, Johnson won two games but lost game seven when his teammates gave up four unearned runs.

  • Won 32 games with 303 strikeouts and a 1.39 ERA in 1912.

  • Had 3,509 career strikeouts, a major league record for almost 60 years until it was surpassed in 1983 by Steve Carlton and Nolan Ryan.

  • Was one of the five original inductees into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1936.


1912 photo postcard featuring Johnson and Joe Wood

  • Had one of the most spectacular fastballs in the history of the game.

  • Johnson had two main nicknames. Both were in honor of his fastball--"The Big Train" and "Barney" (in honor of famous turn-of-the-century race car driver Barney Oldfield.)
YR TM LG GP W L PCT IP H BB SO ERA
1907 Was A 14 5 9 .357 110.1 100 20 71 1.88
1908 Was A 36 14 14 .500 256.1 194 53 160 1.65
1909 Was A 40 13 25 .342 296.1 247 84 164 2.22
1910 Was A 45 25 17 .595 370.0 262 76 313 1.36
1911 Was A 40 25 13 .658 322.1 292 70 207 1.90
1912 Was A 50 33 12 .733 369.0 259 76 303 1.39
1913 Was A 48 36 7 .837 346.0 232 38 243 1.14
1914 Was A 51 28 18 .609 371.2 287 74 225 1.72
1915 Was A 47 27 13 .675 336.2 258 56 203 1.55
1916 Was A 48 25 20 .556 369.2 290 82 228 1.90
1917 Was A 47 23 16 .590 326.0 248 68 188 2.21
1918 Was A 39 23 13 .639 326.0 241 70 162 1.27
1919 Was A 39 20 14 .588 290.1 235 51 147 1.49
1920 Was A 21 8 10 .444 143.2 135 27 78 3.13
1921 Was A 35 17 14 .548 264.0 265 92 143 3.51
1922 Was A 41 15 16 .484 280.0 283 99 105 2.99
1923 Was A 42 17 12 .586 261.0 263 73 130 3.48
1924 Was A 38 23 7 .767 277.2 233 77 158 2.72
1925 Was A 30 20 7 .741 229.0 217 78 108 3.07
1926 Was A 33 15 16 .484 260.2 259 73 125 3.63
1927 Was A 18 5 6 .455 107.2 113 26 48 5.10
  21   802 417 279 .599 5914.1 4913 3509 3509 2.16







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