James ranks Musial 10th, behind Ty Cobb, Mickey Mantle, Ted Williams, Walter Johnson and Josh Gibson.
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Thorn confidently proclaimed that arguments and debates comparing Clemens to Walter Johnson, Cy Young and Lefty Grove was not necessary.
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Walter Johnson had won both of these awards while pitching for the Washington Senators (1913, 1924) and Dazzy Vance of the Brooklyn Robins had won the League Award in 1924.
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Even though Larkin only received 51.6% of the vote in his first year of eligibility (2010), many were of the opinion that he would join the ranks of Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb, Walter Johnson and the other icons of the sport sooner rather than later.
When the offers arrived, the bid from the Johnson-Walter group was so much higher than the competing offers, it essentially took the franchise off the block almost instantly.
By that measure, Clemens ranked No. 2 on the all-time list, just behind the great Walter "Big Train" Johnson, who won 417 games for the Washington Senators from 1907 to 1927.
Walter never became the threat opposite Andre Johnson that the team hoped for.
But Walter Sipes, a NASA psychologist at Johnson Space Center in Houston, said he thinks he knows where to look to start finding answers: history books.
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In addition to Richardson, this year's judging panel includes journalist and former editor of The Lady Rachel Johnson, author Jojo Moyes and writer Natasha Walter.
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The mutual distrust began in the 1997 season and intensified in November 1998 when it emerged Johnson had sold striker Duncan Ferguson to Newcastle behind the back of manager Walter Smith.
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