Player #54L: Walter P. "Barney" Johnson Part 2. "The Big Train". Pitcher for the Washington Senators in 1907-1927. 417 wins and 34 saves in 21 MLB seasons. 1924 World Series champion. 1913 and 1924 AL Most Valuable Player. 3-time triple crown. 6-time AL wins leader. 5-time AL ERA leader. 12-time AL strikeout leader. He had a career ERA of 2.17 in 5,914.1 innings pitched. He pitched a no-hitter in 1920. He holds the MLB record with 110 career shutouts. MLB All-Time Team. Inducted to the MLB Hall of Fame in 1936. One of his best seasons was 1913 as he posted a record of 36-7 with a 1.14 ERA in 346 innings pitched.
We return to Deveaux's account: Walter Johnson's early-season leg injury slowed the 35-year-old icon for most of the rest of the 1923 campaign. But then he had another strong finish, winning both ends of a doubleheader for the only time in his unbelievable career, at St. Louis on September 17. Nine days later, he won another of his 38 career 1-0 decisions over the White Sox. In the last game of the year on October 5, in the epitome of a strong end to a season, the power of the Big Train was fully in evidence. In beating the Red Sox 4-2, Walter struck out 12, the highest total for the year in the American League. Added all up, his record amounted to 17-12, 3.48, highly creditable considering the injury and slow start. He led the league in only one major category, strikeouts, with a modest 130.
While showing improvement, Washington wasn't able to quite elevate itself above .500 in 1923, winding up 75-78. The club did, however, vault itself out of the second division, where it had spent the whole season, making to fourth place with a victory over the Browns on the last day of the campaign. (In the National League, Rodgers Hornsby of the Cardinals went 3-for-5 in the last game to finish at .401, becoming the first to crash the .400 barrier in that league since Ed Delahanty had done so for the Phillies of 1899.) The Washington Senators by Tom Deveaux.)
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