RIP: Bob W. Johnson

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

He provided a good example of Bing Devine's active GM-ing in BD's short tenure assembling the core of the '69 Mets. Bought in May from the Orioles, hit .348 mainly as pinch hitter/reserve 1B/3B, flipped after the season for Art Shamsky.



Traded a lot but liked by teammates everywhere he went, according to his SABR bio and Jim Palmer

[G-Fafif]

Bob won us a game on an 11th-inning homer on August 8, 1967. His shirt presumably stayed on.

[Benjamin Grimm]

I can't find an obituary online anywhere. A different Bob W. Johnson died last week, but this is definitely not our guy:



https://www.grandhaventribune.com/announcements/obituary/robert-bob-w-johnson/article_5fbf4b5e-8129-556d-9510-ee9df5a936a3.htmlhttps://www.grandhaventribune.com/announcements/obituary/robert-bob-w-johnson/article_5fbf4b5e-8129-556d-9510-ee9df5a936a3.html

[Met Hunter]

It's listed now. Check Twin Cities Pioneer Press. It's listed as Bob ‘Rocky' Johnson.

[G-Fafif]

https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/twincities/obituary.aspx?n=bob-johnson-rocky&pid=194466991https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/twincities/obituary.aspx?n=bob-johnson-rocky&pid=194466991

[G-Fafif]