University of San Francisco Athletics

Stanley Lucius Johnson was born on February 12, 1937 in Dallas, TX. He graduated from Galileo High School and played one year at City College prior to attending USF on a baseball scholarship. He was 5' 10", 180 lbs., and batted and threw left. He was signed by the Chicago White Sox in 1957 and scored 120 runs and tied at 204 in hits. Each year, he was selected to his league's All-Star team. He played outfield in eight games in Major League Baseball, 96 games in Nippon Professional Baseball, and over 1,500 games in the minor leagues during his 13-year career from 1957 to 1969 (Wikipedia).

Since pitching every game is an impossibility for the former Balboa High star, Coach Anderson is experimenting with three of his infielders—Casazza, Martini, and Shaughnessy —as possible starters. One, possibly two of these will wind up hurling behind Basques. Centerfielder Stan Johnson, who pitched occasionally at Galileo, may also have to hurl for the Dons when necessary. Hilltop pitching thus presents a problem which must be solved before long. A proposed baseball league similar in composition to the California Basketball Association was postponed until next year. For this reason freshmen will not participate in any varsity games as was the case last season. This step has been taken to avoid the ineligibility rule which struck the Pepperdine and Fresno State teams which had permitted their frosh to play varsity games.

Coach "Dutch" Anderson designated Stan Johnson to hurl last Sunday and the ex-City College ace answered the call by pitching the Dons to a 13-4 victory over the Yakima Bears. The Class B Northwest League club managed to get six hits off the fast-balling southpaw whose record now stands at 3-0 (TheFoghorn).