Walter Johnson

The beanball is one of the meanest things on Earth and no decent fellow would use it. The beanball is a potential…

— Walter Johnson

“Solomon Northup, who had been kidnapped from New York, taken to Virginia, and then sold to Louisiana, told no one his story,…

— Walter Johnson

“But the reformers were right: the bovine digestive system is an extraordinarily efficient mechanism for converting grass, fodder, and even forage into…

— Walter Johnson

“Occasionally, however, when chided by their slaves or others, slaveholders did act in concert with the better selves of their paternalist rhetoric.…

— Walter Johnson

You can't hit what you can't see; I float like a butterfly and sting like a bee!

— Walter Johnson

“One man had been completely submerged in the boiling liquid which inundated the cabin, and in his removal to the deck, the…

— Walter Johnson

Nobody saw it, he (Rogers Hornsby) hit it and it disappeared.

— Walter Johnson

Can I throw harder than Joe Wood? Listen mister, no man alive can throw any harder than Smoky Joe Wood.

— Walter Johnson

“Some slaves, however, were "too white to keep." That was how Edmund was described by the man who had sold him from…

— Walter Johnson

You can't hit what you can't see

— Walter Johnson

I was the greenest rookie that ever was. One evening I was standing out on the sidewalk when a stranger approached and…

— Walter Johnson

“South. In southern courtrooms and medical journals, slaves' misbehavior was often attributed to an inward disposition of character, which meant that there…

— Walter Johnson

The cost of anything is the foregone alternative.

— Walter Johnson

(Bob) Feller isn't quite as fast as I was.

— Walter Johnson

Can I throw harder than Joe Wood? Listen mister, no man alive can throw any harder than Smokey Joe Wood.

— Walter Johnson

“The vitality associated with blackness might cancel out the vulnerability associated with femininity in the search for a field hand, while a…

— Walter Johnson

I throw as hard as I can when I think I have to throw as hard as I can.

— Walter Johnson

Well I can't rightly say (which player hit the ball hardest), but the ones (home runs by) Ruth hit got smaller quicker.

— Walter Johnson