DATE: 2000 ORIGINAL or REPRINT: Original - Printed from the original negative in the time period in which it was shot TEAM: Washington Senators SUBJECT: Walter Johnson ISSUER: USPS APPROXIMATE SIZE: 4-1/4"x6" MARKS / STAMPING: Has standard postcard back but remains postally unused. NUMBER OF PHOTOS: 1 COMMENTS / CONDITION: This is one of a large accumulation of vintage sports photographs, slides and negatives that we will be listing over the coming months. Wear on these, if any, is mostly confined to minor corner and edge wear, but see scans for further details including condition. We do not deal in stock images or modern reprints, and all scans shown are of the actual vintage photograph, slide or negative being sold. If you have any questions about a particular piece, please ask before the auction ends. BIO: Walter Perry Johnson (Barney or The Big Train) was born in Humboldt, KS and died in 1946 in Washington, DC. He played major league baseball from 1907 to 1927 as pitcher for the Washington Senators, appeared in the 1924 and 1925 World Series, and was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1936. One of the most celebrated players in baseball history, Johnson established several pitching records, some of which remained unbroken for more than a half-century. In 1928, he began his career as a manager in the minor leagues, taking up residence at 32 Maple Terrace, Millburn, New Jersey, and managing the Newark team of the International League. He continued on to the major leagues, managing the Washington Nationals/Senators (1929-1932), and finally the Cleveland Indians (1933-1935). Johnson also served as a radio announcer for the Senators during the 1939 season. One of the first five players elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1936, Walter Johnson retired to Germantown, Maryland. A life-long Republican and friend of President Calvin Coolidge, Johnson was elected as a Montgomery County commissioner in 1938. In 1940 he ran for the U.S. House of Representatives seat in Maryland's 6th district, but came up short against the incumbent Democrat, William D. Byron, by a total of 60,037 (53%) to 52,258 (47%). SKU: L14160
Item: L14160
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