It's also in my book, "Walter Johnson, Baseball's Big Train." I think I got my copy from the San Diego Historical Society, perhaps you can buy a print from them. Johnson's short stint with the Pickwicks, when they played the Los Angeles Angels PCL champions for the "Championship of Southern California," is a great story. I've always thought that Johnson accepted the invitation to play in the series to prove a point to Pop Dillon, the Angels' manager, who had rejected Johnson, with with some unkind words about him, after a tryout with the Angels several months earlier. In the meantime, Johnson had been discovered by the Senators toiling away in Weiser, Idaho, had gone to Washington for the last two months of the American League season, and had made quite a splash. He did prove a point to Dillon, by the way, who was also derided in the San Diego press as "The man who let Walter Johnson get away."
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