Later Baseball Years
From this point on, Johnson's major league career rapidly wound down, as he played in just 104 games for the Dodgers in 1967, a combined 127 for the Chicago Cubs and the Cleveland Indians in 1968, and just 67 for the California Angels in 1969, with only a .203 batting average. In 1970, at the age of 35, Johnson was out of professional baseball for good.
In his approximately four-year-long Major League career, Johnson posted a .258 overall average with 48 home runs and 232 RBI in 677 games played.
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