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| - Davey Johnson is one of the best managers for the Mets. He is the 11th manager for the Mets.
- Davey Johnson is a former NASCAR driver from Imperial, PA. He competed in twenty-seven Nationwide Series events in his career, spanning from 1989 to 1991. He earned two top-tens: a 10th at Rougemont in 1989 and a 6th at Nazareth in 1990. 1990 was also the year he led the only 11 laps of his career (Nazareth) and finished a career-best 27th in points.
- After one season playing baseball at Texas A&M University, Johnson signed with the Baltimore Orioles as an amateur free agent in 1962. He made the team, and was in the opening day line-up for the 1965 season opener, but spent most of the season in the minors, where he batted .301 for the Rochester Red Wings. On June 13, 1966, the Orioles traded second baseman Jerry Adair to the Chicago White Sox to make room for Johnson at second base. He responded with a .257 batting average, seven home runs and 56 runs batted in to finish third in American League Rookie of the Year balloting for the 1966 World Series champions. In the 1966 World Series, Johnson earned the distinction of being the last person to get a hit off of Sandy Koufax.
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| - Davey Johnson is one of the best managers for the Mets. He is the 11th manager for the Mets.
- After one season playing baseball at Texas A&M University, Johnson signed with the Baltimore Orioles as an amateur free agent in 1962. He made the team, and was in the opening day line-up for the 1965 season opener, but spent most of the season in the minors, where he batted .301 for the Rochester Red Wings. On June 13, 1966, the Orioles traded second baseman Jerry Adair to the Chicago White Sox to make room for Johnson at second base. He responded with a .257 batting average, seven home runs and 56 runs batted in to finish third in American League Rookie of the Year balloting for the 1966 World Series champions. In the 1966 World Series, Johnson earned the distinction of being the last person to get a hit off of Sandy Koufax. Johnson reached the World Series again with the Orioles in 1969, 1970 and 1971, winning his only other ring as a player in 1970. He also won the AL Gold Glove Award at second base all three seasons. Orioles shortstop Mark Belanger won the award as well in 1969 and 1971, joining a select list of eight shortstop-second baseman combinations have won the honor in the same season while playing together. Third baseman Brooks Robinson also was in the middle of his record 16 straight Gold Glove streak when Johnson and Belanger won their awards. Following the 1972 season, Johnson was traded with Pat Dobson, Roric Harrison and Johnny Oates to the Atlanta Braves for Taylor Duncan and Earl Williams. Johnson's best statistical year came in 1973 with the Braves when he tied Rogers Hornsby's record for most single-season home runs by a second baseman with 42 (he actually hit 43 that year, but one came as a pinch hitter - The Sporting News Baseball Record Book, 2007 p. 23). The 1973 Braves featured the first trio of teammates ever to all hit 40 home runs in the same season when Johnson hit 43, Darrell Evans hit 41, and Hank Aaron hit 40. Johnson's second-highest was 18 home runs in the 1971 season - considered to be a good number for second baseman, itself. Four games into the 1975 season, Johnson was released by the Braves. He signed and played in the Japanese League for the Yomiuri Giants (1975–1976). He returned to America in 1977, signing as a free agent with the Philadelphia Phillies. During the 1978 season, Johnson hit two grand slam home runs as a pinch-hitter for the Phillies. Shortly afterwards, he was dealt to the Chicago Cubs, where he ended his playing career. Johnson, batting against Jerry Koosman, was the last batter of the 1969 World Series - flying out to give the Mets their first World Championship. He would go on to manage the Mets to their second, with Jesse Orosco striking out the final batter. Coincidentally, the two pitchers had been traded for each other after the 1978 season. Johnson would manage Orosco again in Baltimore, as Orosco signed with the Orioles as a free agent in 1995, a year before Johnson arrived.
- Davey Johnson is a former NASCAR driver from Imperial, PA. He competed in twenty-seven Nationwide Series events in his career, spanning from 1989 to 1991. He earned two top-tens: a 10th at Rougemont in 1989 and a 6th at Nazareth in 1990. 1990 was also the year he led the only 11 laps of his career (Nazareth) and finished a career-best 27th in points.
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