[kawhill]

Ty Cobb had a lifetime batting average of .380 against Walter Johnson. In their 92 matchups, Cobb had 330 at-bats, a .452 on-base percentage, and a .494 slugging average.

[sushiman]

Jonathan Richman song ”Walter Johnson ”。https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpUd7t5gQYU&list=RDrpUd7t5gQYU&start_radio=1

[equaviator]

The Tigers could have used a guy like Ty Cobb this year to show them how it’s done.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Walter Johnson, from when the Washington Senators didn't mean Schumer and Schiff.

[Leaning Right]

Walter Johnson’s was known as “the Big Train”. That was back when players had interesting and colorful nicknames.

Babe Ruth, Dizzy Dean, the Yankee Clipper, etc.

I don’t follow baseball much anymore. Do today’s players have such nicknames?

[CommerceComet]

Johnson’s velocity on his fastball was legendary. Once while facing Walter Johnson, Babe Ruth took a high strike on a fastball. He turned to the umpire and said: “Are you sure? That sounded high to me.”

[PermaRag]

Johnson once ran for Congress, as a Republican, from the DC suburbs in Maryland. It was sometime around 1940.

[dznutz]

I read where one game Johnson struck Babe Ruth out on three straight fastballs. Ruth asked the umpire if he saw any of the pitches and the ump replied no. Ruth then said “Neither did I, but the last one sounded kinda high to me.”

[Tymesup]

There’s some footage of Johnson pitching that’s recently surfaced. He threw with a different motion than we see today. More sidearm, and got some momentum from his hips.

In 1916, Babe Ruth threw 323.2 innings without allowing a home run. Johnson topped that by throwing 369.2 innings without allowing a home run. This included at least two starts against Ruth, although the Bambino only had 3 homers that year.