Who is Brian Johnson?

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Besides going to every auction and writing down the prices for EVERYTHING to post on his site, what the heck is his story? Never seen him bid on anything. I don't get it, it is great that he does it, but why???
 
Is this Him?

1994:

In 1994 or 1995, a classic arcade game collector in Minnesota by the name of Brian Johnson volunteered to take on upkeep of the list and became the new "KLOV Keeper," a title used to refer to the maintainer of the KLOV by the Usenet collector community at the time. The KLOV launched as a full brand on or before November 9, 1995. Brian was instrumental in developing the KLOV's web site from a simple list to a full web-based encyclopedia. Brian's efforts included breaking up the list into a complete online encyclopedia with distinct pages for each entry, rewriting all the content, including pictures in as many listings as was possible, and in general creating a user-friendly and searchable website. Visitors could submit suggested changes to Brian, who could then edit any entries by hand.
 
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It's awesome that he does this, to me it doesn't matter who he is or why he does it. I'm just glad that someone does :)

If I had a chance to make a suggestion, I think it would be great if he or someone else set up a database that allows external contributions. I think it would be great to have a single website where people could go in and add/edit/view auction prices for all of the different auctions. Right now there's a couple of different sites out there that have auction results, but they are pretty much regional (Brian's site covers a lot of the midwest auctions, BasementArcade.com covers many of the east coast ones)
 
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Brian Johnson is a retired MLB catcher who played for the SF Giants 1997-1998, and on September 18, 1997 at 3Com park in San Francisco he hit a a walk off home run in the bottom of the 12th to propel the Giants past the Dodgers that day and place them in a dead tie for the division, with the Giants eventually outlasting the Dodgers and winning the NL West division. I was there that day.

Was that what your looking for?
 
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Brian Johnson is a retired MLB catcher who played for the SF Giants 1997-1998, and on September 18, 1997 at 3Com park in San Francisco he hit a a walk off home run in the bottom of the 12th to propel the Giants past the Dodgers that day and place them in a dead tie for the division, with the Giants eventually outlasting the Dodgers and winning the NL West division. I was there that day.

Was that what your looking for?

I think he played for the Tigers and/or Padres as well. :D
 
Is this Him?

1994:

In 1994 or 1995, a classic arcade game collector in Minnesota by the name of Brian Johnson volunteered to take on upkeep of the list and became the new "KLOV Keeper," a title used to refer to the maintainer of the KLOV by the Usenet collector community at the time. The KLOV launched as a full brand on or before November 9, 1995. Brian was instrumental in developing the KLOV's web site from a simple list to a full web-based encyclopedia. Brian's efforts included breaking up the list into a complete online encyclopedia with distinct pages for each entry, rewriting all the content, including pictures in as many listings as was possible, and in general creating a user-friendly and searchable website. Visitors could submit suggested changes to Brian, who could then edit any entries by hand.

(reviving an older thread from last year)

Yes, Brian with the auction prices is the same guy who ran the KLOV from 1994 or 1995 until 2000. He brought it from a list to a web site and put countless hours into it. Without his work, there would have been nothing for me to take over in 2000, and these forums which I added would never have come to pass.

He lives at the other end of the country. I ran into him at California Extreme this year after the KLOV group photo. If I knew he was going to be there I would have made sure he would have joined our photo.
 
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