Jim Johnson, ’61, will have his sixth book published next spring, called “Double No-hit: Johnny Vander Meer’s historic night under the lights.” The book, to be published by the University of Nebraska Press, focuses on the back-to-back no-hitters that Vander Meer pitched in 1938, the only time that has happened in major league history.
Johnson retired as journalism professor at the University of Arizona in 2003. He also is the co-author of a biography of Significant Sig Morris K. Udall and a book that features Significant Sig Barry Goldwater as one of 21 noteworthy Arizona politicians. He is now writing a biography of the acclaimed Southwest artist Ted De Grazia.