Sixteen facts about Walter Johnson

1. Walter Perry Johnson, nicknamed "The Big Train," was a right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball between 1907 and 1927. 
2. Walter Johnson established several pitching records, some of which remained unbroken for nearly a century.
3. Walter Johnson was spotted by a talent scout and signed a contract with the Washington Senators in July 1907 at the age of nineteen.
4. In a 21-year career, Walter Johnson had twelve 20-win seasons, including ten in a row.
5. As a right-handed pitcher for the Washington Nationals/Senators, Walter Johnson won 417 games, the second most by any pitcher in history (after Cy Young, who won 511). He and Young are the only pitchers to have won 400 games.
6. Twice, Johnson topped thirty wins (33 in 1912 and 36 in 1913).
7. Three times, Johnson won the triple crown for pitchers (1913, 1918 and 1924). Johnson twice won the American League Most Valuable Player Award (1913, 1924), a feat accomplished since by only two other pitchers, Carl Hubbell in 1933 and 1936 and Hal Newhouser in 1944 and 1945.
8. Walter Johnson won 36 games in 1913, 40% of the team's total wins for the season.
9. Johnson finished his career with 23 home runs, the ninth-highest total for a pitcher in Major League history.
10. A baseball field in Rockville, Maryland is named after him
11. At 11:40 PM, Tuesday, December 10, 1946 Johnson died of a brain tumor in Washington, D.C., five weeks after his 59th birthday.
12. Johnson was the first American League pitcher to strike out four batters in one inning.
13. The baseball field in Memorial Park, in Weiser, Idaho, is called Walter Johnson Field.
14. In 1985, rock musician Jonathan Richman wrote and dedicated a song to Johnson entitled "Walter Johnson," performed with The Modern Lovers on the album Rockin' and Romance.A team in the Cal Ripken Sr. Collegiate Baseball League in Bethesda is named the "Big Train" in honor of him.
15. In 1999, The Sporting News ranked Johnson number 4 on its list of Baseball's 100 Greatest Players, the highest-ranked pitcher. Later that year, he was elected to the Major League Baseball All-Century Team.
16. In 2009, a statue of Johnson was installed inside the center field gate of Nationals Park along with ones of Frank Howard and Josh Gibson.