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Walter Perry Johnson, nicknamed "Barney" and "the Big Train", was an American professional baseball player and manager. He played his entire 21-year baseball career in Major League Baseball as a right
Johnson with the Washington Senators in 1924
T206 Walter Johnson baseball card
Walter Johnson in a 1909 portrait photograph
President Calvin Coolidge (left) and Washington Senators pitcher Walter Johnson (right) shake hands.
The first elections to select inductees to the Baseball Hall of Fame were held in 1936. Five players were selected—Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner, Christy Mathewson, and Walter Johnson—with an induc
Walter Johnson
…history to record more than 400 wins and strike out more than 3,500 batters. In 1936, Johnson was elected into the Baseball Hall of Fame as one of its "first five" inaugural members. Johnson was the second of six children (Effie, Leslie, Earl, Blanche) born to Frank Edwin Johnson (1861–1921) and Minnie Olive Perry…
1936 inductees (L–R): Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner, Christy Mathewson, and Walter Johnson
Plaques of the 1936 selections in Cooperstown