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Ken Johnson pitched in 13 major league seasons and somehow didn't finish the season with the same team, six different times. Managed to win in double figures five years in a row (half of the time with very bad Houston times), was a key figure in the Reds' drive to the pennant in '61, managed to lose a no-hitter, and finished sixth in the NL in strikeouts in '62. He once told me "I have no idea how I did any of that. I threw slop!" He was mostly being modest but he gradually evolved into a full-time knuckleballer who set up the pitch with stuff that was almost as slow.

Brace managed to get Johnson with the A's (he'd been a Spring Training batboy for them under Connie Mack in West Palm Beach), in his half season with the Reds, with the Colts, in his half season in Milwaukee, with the Braves after they moved to Atlanta, and I think being posted here for the first time, during his nine-game stint with the '69 Cubs (all the Topps image of him with Chicago are from Spring Training '70).