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300; At age 45, Johnson becomes the 24th, and maybe the last, pitcher to achieve milestone with a victory over Nationals.

Publication: The Washington Times
Publication Date: 05-JUN-09 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: 300; At age 45, Johnson becomes the 24th, and maybe the last, pitcher to achieve milestone with a victory over Nationals.(SPORTS)

Article Excerpt
Byline: Ben Goessling, THE WASHINGTON TIMES

When the Montreal Expos traded a gangly left-hander named Randy Johnson to the Seattle Mariners in May 1989, they were unloading a 6-foot-10 mountain of hyperbolic contradiction.

Johnson's fastball touched 100 mph, but he rarely knew where it was going. He stepped toward the plate with swirling aggression, his scraggly mullet and mustache framing a permanent scowl. In his first no-hitter, for the Mariners in 1990, Johnson struck out eight and walked six - the latter being the statistic his father, Bud, harped on in a phone call that night.

Johnson pitched Thursday looking as different as the franchise that traded him away all those years ago. The team had been threatened with contraction, played 22 games...

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