On this day in 1927, Walter “The Big Train” Johnson gave up only three hits as he led the Washington Senators (18-18) to a 3-0 victory over the Boston Red Sox (10-26). The shutout will be the Big Train’s “Major League Record” 110th career shutout and the last one of his illustrious career.

Walter Johnson’s shutout record is one Major League Baseball record that will never be broken. Currently there is not one active pitcher with enough shutouts to be registered on the Top 100 Career Shutouts List. To see how out of reach this record is all you have to do is look at the list of active players with the most complete games in a career. Roy Halladay leads that list with (54) complete games.

      

On this day in 1927, Walter “The Big Train” Johnson gave up only three hits as he led the Washington Senators (18-18) to a 3-0 victory over the Boston Red Sox (10-26). The shutout will be the Big Train’s “Major League Record” 110th career shutout and the last one of his illustrious career.

Walter Johnson’s shutout record is one Major League Baseball record that will never be broken. Currently Randy Johnson who is 45 years-old leads all active pitchers with (37) career shutouts. To see how out of reach this record is all you have to do is look at the list of active players with the most complete games in a career. Randy Johnson leads that list with (100) complete games.

      

The Mark Teixeira auction has been going on so long I have had plenty of time to do more research on Mark Teixeira. I found out that in 1998, before the Major League Baseball Draft took place that the Boston Red Sox offered Mark Teixeira a $1,500,000 signing bonus if he agreed to sign with them.

Mark Teixeira turned down the Red Sox offer. With the draft approaching Teixeira believed he would get a better offer. Before the draft the Red Sox spread the word to the other teams that Teixeira did not accept their offer because he had decided to go to college instead.

After the word got out that Teixeira had chosen college, no teams chose him in the first eight rounds of the 1998 Major League Baseball Draft. The Red Sox then drafted Teixeira in the ninth round. Instead of signing with the Red Sox, Teixeira decided to attend Georgia Tech where he enjoyed a great college career.

Now, it is ten years later and the Red Sox have another chance in signing Mark Teixeira and I think Teixeira should repeat history and turn them down again. I think he should sign with the Washington Nationals and make D.C. baseball history as he becomes a baseball legend in the Nation's Capital.