Dave Johnson (1987-1993 pitcher)
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David Wayne Johnson is a retired American
United States
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 professional baseball
Baseball
Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond...

 player who was a pitcher
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 in the Major Leagues from 1987–1993. Johnson would play for the Baltimore Orioles
Baltimore Orioles
The Baltimore Orioles are a professional baseball team based in Baltimore, Maryland in the United States. They are a member of the Eastern Division of Major League Baseball's American League. One of the American League's eight charter franchises in 1901, it spent its first year as a major league...

, Pittsburgh Pirates
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, and Detroit Tigers
Detroit Tigers
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. A Guideposts
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article titled "Against the Odds" by Dave Johnson appeared in the May, 1990, issue of the magazine (pp 2–5). He currently works as an analyst for MASN. Johnson's son Steve, is currently a pitcher in the minor leagues. He was in the Los Angeles Dodgers
Los Angeles Dodgers
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 organization before being traded to the Orioles as part of the deal for George Sherrill
George Sherrill
George Friederich Sherrill , also known as "The Brim Reaper", "Flat Breezy", and "Duckbill" , is a Major League Baseball relief pitcher, who is a free agent-College and independent baseball:Sherrill was not drafted after graduating from Austin Peay State...

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He currently resides in Kingsville, Maryland
Kingsville, Maryland
Kingsville is a semi-rural, unincorporated community and a census-designated place in Baltimore County, Maryland, United States. It is a close-knit and rustic community bounded by the Little Gunpowder Falls river and the Big Gunpowder Falls river which join to form the Gunpowder...

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