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Regular first baseman both this year and last, Johnson is a solid right-handed batter who finished the season with an average of .376 after a torrid start, which saw him hitting above .500 over the first few weeks of the schedule. Johnson's final mark placed him second on the squad list, behind catcher Captain Charlie Walsh...
...record books or statistics. In 1922, when Chicago was playing Princeton's "Team of Destiny" (Fullback Charley Caldwell, now Princeton's coach; Quarterback John Gorman; End Howard ["Howdy"] Gray), the Chicago offense was stopped cold on the Tiger two-yard line. After Chicago tried unsuccessfully to batter its way through center, Stagg's assistant, "Fritz" Crisler (later a Princeton coach, 1932-37), suggested that...
...cocksure youngster with plenty of promise, but little experience. Dressen asked Loes how he held the ball for various pitches. Loes's laconic answer: "I figure it doesn't make any difference how you hold it just as long as you get the batter out." The reply tickled Dressen, who said, "He's got guts." Loes also has gall. Two weeks before the season opened, Loes told Dressen:"You're looking for an opening-day pitcher; you got one right here." As it happened, Loes did pitch in the Ebbets Field opener in relief against...
...inning after inning, as batters gaped in slack-jawed amazement, Righthander Necciai smacked strike after strike into the catcher's glove. Some batters went down with their bats on their shoulders; others, swinging wildly, hit nothing but air. One batter did manage to nick the ball enough for an easy roller, and was thrown out by the shortstop. By the end of the eighth inning only three batters had reached first-one on a base on balls, one hit by a pitched ball, the third on an error. In the meantime, Necciai had struck out every other batter...
...ninth inning, he struck out the first two batters. Then he zipped a third strike past what should have been the last batter. Under official scoring rules, it was the 26th strikeout, but the game was not over: the catcher had let the third strike get through him and the batter beat his throw to first. The passed ball gave Necciai a chance to become the first man in baseball history to strike out 27 men in a regulation nine-inning game. Unruffled by the catcher's error, Necciai...