Roy Johnson
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Roy Cleveland Johnson (February 23, 1903–1973), left fielder/right fielder in Major League Baseball who competed for the Detroit Tigers (1929–32), Boston Red Sox (1932–34), and Boston Bees (1937–38).
He batted left-handed and threw right-handed, and was a native of Pryor, Oklahoma.
Indian Bob Johnson, his younger brother, was also a major league player.
Playing career
Roy Johnson batted left-handed and threw right-handed; he was 5 foot 9 inches (1.75 m) tall and weighed 175 pounds (1.75 kg). Roy was more a contact, line-drive hitter than his younger brother, who batted 288 home runs in his 13-year MLB career. He was also a superb defensive outfielder with a strong throwing arm. He began his career in 1926 when he reached.369 in the Class C Utah-Idaho League, earning him a call-up to the Pacific Coast League's top-level San Francisco Seals. In 1927 and 1928, then collaborated with Earl Averill and Smead Jolley to give the Seals one of the most feared hitting-outfields in minor league history.
The independently operated Seals sold Johnson to the Detroit Tigers, beginning his decade-long baseball career in which he would be a four-time hitter and six times finish in the Top 10 in American League (AL) leader in stolen bases.
Johnson was the first rookie in major league history to hit 200 runs in a season (201) and also led the AL with 45 doubles and 640 at-bats while hitting.314 for a career-high 128 runs in his 1929 debut. He led the AL with 19 triples and stole 33 bases in 1931.
Johnson, who was traded from Detroit to the Red Sox in 1932, spent three years with Boston, hitting.313 and 119 RBI in 1933, 1934, 1937, and.315 in 1935. He then became a part-time outfielder with the Yankees, with whom he appeared in the 1936 World Series as a pinch runner and striking out in his first plate appearance. In six games, Johnson became a world champion after the Yanks defeated the New York Giants.
The Yankees lost two in a row to the Tigers one month into the 1937 season. "What does the guy want to do, win every day?" Johnson wondered as a result of the losses. McCarthy was destined to overhear him in a horrible stroke of chance. Almost immediately after returning to the team hotel, McCarthy called general manager Ed Barrow and ordered that Johnson be waived immediately. Barrow obliged; Tommy Henrich took his first spot on the roster. Johnson was banned from waivers by the Boston Bees, and Johnson played 92 games as a Bee until April 27, 1938, when he was sent to the minors. He would never return to the majors.
Johnson had a.296 batting average (1,292-for-4,359) in his ten-season career, with 716 runs, 83 triples, 58 home runs, 58 home runs, 589 stolen bases,.437 on-base percentage, and a.437 slugging percentage. As an outfielder, he had a.938 fielding percentage.
On September 10, 1973, Roy Johnson died in Tacoma at the age of 70.