The longest baseball thrown on record was 426 feet ... open for any one who can throw 1,300 feet.” “If Bloom wants Walter Johnson to throw a silver dollar 1,500 feet and the natives of ...

Those 117 gentlemen should have joined Mariano Rivera as unanimous selections to the None of them did. If anything, I undercounted. I do allow for some honest difference of opinion. Nor am I including ...

On Jan. 29, 1936, the U.S. Baseball Hall of Fame elects its first members in Cooperstown, New York: Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner, Christy Matthewson and Walter Johnson.

1936 — Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner, Christy Mathewson and Walter Johnson are the first members elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame. 1954 — Bevo Francis of Rio Grande College scores 113 points in ...

Walter Johnson was on the mound for the visitors and was never in better form or showed more stuff. He was frequently cheered by the crowd, who figured that he was showing invincible form and ...