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Merkle923 · 04-28-2025, 10:00 PM

Brace didn't get him with the Astros. Houston traded him on May 23, 1965, putting him in that narrow window of so many players from the first year they were the Astros. I've never seen a shot of Johnson - color or black and white - in the actual Astros cap, just the interim star-only thing they wore in Spring Training (Note TNFoto's invaluable correction below. That image is marked on the back as being from Johnson's last start with Houston, May 23. Still haven't seen him posed)

He also didn't get him with the Yankees during a two-month stay there in 1969. Interestingly, Topps didn't get him either. Online, there's what appears to be a J.D. McCarthy shot of him taken at Detroit. It's been digitally reproduced and a lot of the lines are wavy; I've never seen a better version. Brace also didn't get him with the Expos, with whom he opened 1970. They released him on April 28.

There IS a Johnson Expos shot, black and white, thumbnail sized, in an anniversary poster from a Montreal scorecard - and there's a crease right in the middle. I've never seen the original. Anyway here he is at Wrigley as both kinds of Brave, and as Cub:

04-28-2025, 10:00 PM	#37458
Merkle923 Hall Of Famer Join Date: Aug 2013 Posts: 2,149	More Ken Johnson 1958 (in 1965, 1966, 1969) Brace didn't get him with the Astros. Houston traded him on May 23, 1965, putting him in that narrow window of so many players from the first year they were the Astros. I've never seen a shot of Johnson - color or black and white - in the actual Astros cap, just the interim star-only thing they wore in Spring Training (Note TNFoto's invaluable correction below. That image is marked on the back as being from Johnson's last start with Houston, May 23. Still haven't seen him posed) He also didn't get him with the Yankees during a two-month stay there in 1969. Interestingly, Topps didn't get him either. Online, there's what appears to be a J.D. McCarthy shot of him taken at Detroit. It's been digitally reproduced and a lot of the lines are wavy; I've never seen a better version. Brace also didn't get him with the Expos, with whom he opened 1970. They released him on April 28. There IS a Johnson Expos shot, black and white, thumbnail sized, in an anniversary poster from a Montreal scorecard - and there's a crease right in the middle. I've never seen the original. Anyway here he is at Wrigley as both kinds of Brave, and as Cub: Attached Images Last edited by Merkle923; Yesterday at 12:06 AM.