home run johnson: the autobiography

Here, courtesy of John Russell, is a brief sketch of Grant “Home Run” Johnson’s career up to 1913, with details supplied by Johnson himself—plus a photo I’ve never seen before of Johnson in the colors of the Royal Poinciana Hotel team of Palm Beach, Florida.

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(Schenectady Gazette, March 4, 1913, p. 11)

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