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Posted on 10/26/2025 3:43:55 PM PDT by kawhill
The great Ty Cobb admitted his fastball “made me flinch” and “hissed with danger.”
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Jonathan Richman song ”Walter Johnson ”。https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpUd7t5gQYU&list=RDrpUd7t5gQYU&start_radio=1
The Tigers could have used a guy like Ty Cobb this year to show them how it’s done.
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?
“The Big Dumper” just doesn’t have the same ring to it.
That was back when players had interesting and colorful nicknames.
“Well, let’s see, on the team we have uh Who’s on first, What’s on second, I Don’t Know is on third…”
> Who’s on first? <
Some routines get stale. But I never tire of that one. Abbott and Costello were geniuses. They tailored that routine to the time available. For those not in the know, here’s a relatively long version.
https://youtu.be/RlllabwmWcc?si=cCtdg—6nNAamBrd
Plenty nicks today: El Mago, Sheriff, Thor, El Nino, Polar Bear, Big Maple
Fun fact: Comedy duos like Abbott and Costello like did not split the money equally. The straight man (Abbott in this case) was considered to have the more difficult job, and so got a higher percentage of the pay.
This really bothered Costello, and contributed to the team’s break-up.
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.”
Johnson once ran for Congress, as a Republican, from the DC suburbs in Maryland. It was sometime around 1940.
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.”
I just saw your post……
There is a Walter Johnson high school in Montgomery, county Maryland, adjacent to Washington DC. Ar one time it had a top five rating academically across the country. Now it is a woke far left mess.
As of 2024, Walter Johnson is the 15th-ranked high school in Maryland and the 855th-ranked nationally, according to U.S News and World Report.
All High Schools in MD and especially Montgomery County are Woke and have been for a long time.
WJ does draw from the neighborhoods Johnson actually lived in which is kinda neat. The local baseball team "Big Train" (Collegiate League) plays nearby at Shirley Povich field.
https://www.bigtrain.org/
11 seasons with an earned run average below 2.00, and what seems almost incomprehensible a century later, 531 complete games in 666 starts.
No problem.
Interesting fact: Babe Ruth as a pitcher once outdueled Walter Johnson 1-0 in a 13-inning game.
Babe Ruth as a hitter hit .370 against Johnson with 10 HRs. However, Johnson was on the downside of his career while Ruth was in his prime.
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