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American baseball player and coach
Baseball player
Roy Johnson
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Pitcher
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Born:
(
1895-10-01
)
October 1, 1895
Madill, Oklahoma
, U.S.
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Died:
January 10, 1986
(1986-01-10)
(aged 90)
Scottsdale, Arizona
, U.S.
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Batted:
Right
Threw:
Right
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August 7, 1918, for the Philadelphia Athletics
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September 2, 1918, for the Philadelphia Athletics
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Win?loss record
| 1?5
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Earned run average
| 3.42
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Strikeouts
| 12
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As player
As manager
As coach
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Roy Johnson
(October 1, 1895 ? January 10, 1986) was an American right-handed
pitcher
and longtime
coach
in
Major League Baseball
. He also was the interim
manager
of the
Chicago Cubs
for one game in
1944
. He was nicknamed "Hardrock" as a
minor league
manager because his teams played in a tough, uncompromising way.
Early life and career
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Johnson was born in
Madill, Oklahoma
. He entered pro baseball in 1915, and, in his only big league season, the war-shortened
1918
campaign, he compiled a 1?5
win?loss
mark (
.167
) and a 3.42
earned run average
in ten
games
and 50
innings pitched
for the
Philadelphia Athletics
. He returned to the minor leagues as a pitcher thereafter, and became a manager with
Bisbee
of the Class D
Arizona?Texas League
in 1929.
In
1935
, Johnson was promoted to a coaching position with the Cubs by manager
Charlie Grimm
. He was associated with the Cubs for the remainder of his career as a coach (1935?39; 1944?53), minor league pilot, and scout. The Cubs won three
National League
pennants (
1935
,
1938
and
1945
) during Johnson's 15 total years as a coach.
On May 3, 1944, with the Cubs having lost nine of their first ten National League games, he served as interim manager for one game, between
Jimmie Wilson
and Grimm's second term; Chicago lost to the
Cincinnati Reds
, 10?4, their tenth defeat in a row.
Johnson died at age 90 in
Scottsdale, Arizona
.
References
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- J.G. Taylor Spink, ed.,
The Baseball Register.
St. Louis: The Sporting News, 1949.
- The Baseball Encyclopedia
, Macmillan Books, 10th edition.
External links
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