Personal Life
Johnson was born in Orlando, Florida. He graduated from Alamo Heights High School in San Antonio, Texas. He also attended the Johns Hopkins University and Texas A&M University, and graduated from Trinity University in 1964 with a bachelor's degree in mathematics. He is known for taking a statistical approach to baseball.
Johnson's daughter, Andrea, was a nationally-ranked amateur surfer in the late 1980s. Andrea died in 2005 from septic shock.
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