Johnny Logan, Shortstop for World Champion Milwaukee Braves, Dies at 86 Johnny Logan, a feisty shortstop who helped the Braves win Milwaukee's only World Series, in 1957, died on Aug. 9 at a hospital near his home in Milwaukee. He was 86. His death was announced in a post on Major League Baseball's Web site, which said he had kidney ailments in recent years. Logan played from 1951 until 1961 on a Braves team that included Hank Aaron, Eddie Mathews and Warren Spahn. He batted .268 with 93 home runs and 547 runs batted in during his 13-year career. He led the league with 37 doubles in 1955 and was named to the National League All-Star team four times. He hit the first home run of the 1957 World Series against the Yankees, in the second game. Milwaukee won the series, 4-3. Though he was only 5 feet 11 inches and 175 pounds, Logan rarely backed down on the field. In 1957, he charged the mound after the Brooklyn Dodgers" Don Drysdale, who stood 6-5, narrowly missed his head with a pitch. John Logan Jr. was born on March 23, 1927, in Endicott, N.Y. He lettered in football, baseball, basketball and track at Union-Endicott High School and graduated in 1945. Logan played baseball for the Army toward the end of World War II and was honorably discharged in 1946. He attended an extension college of Syracuse University until 1947, when he signed a minor league contract with the Boston Braves (the team moved to Milwaukee in 1953 and later to Atlanta). He married Dorothy Ahlmeyer in 1953. She died in 1989. His survivors include three sons, Jimmy, John Daniel and Jeff. Logan was traded to the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1961 and retired from the major leagues in 1963. He played with the Nankai Hawks in Japan in 1964, then returned to Milwaukee, where he eventually worked as a local scout for the Milwaukee Brewers. An earlier version of this article incorrectly stated the year that Logan charged mound against Don Drysdale. It was 1957, not 1959.