Johnny Cooney
As player
- Boston Braves (1921-1930)
- Brooklyn Dodgers (1935-1937)
- Boston Bees/Braves (1938-1942)
- Brooklyn Dodgers (1943-1944)
- New York Yankees (1944)
As manager
- Boston Braves (1949)
John Walter Cooney (March 18, 1901 – July 8, 1986) was an American professional baseball player. He was a pitcher, outfielder and first baseman, then a longtime coach, in Major League Baseball. Listed at 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) (178 cm) and 165 pounds (75 kg), Cooney batted right-handed but threw left-handed. He was born in Cranston, Rhode Island.
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Famous quotes containing the word johnny:
“Wha lies here?
I, Johnny Doo.
Hoo, Johnny, is that you?
Ay, man, but a’m dead noo.”
—Anonymous. “Johnny Doo,” from Geoffrey Grigson’s Faber Book of Epigrams and Epitaphs, Faber & Faber (1977)