Johnny Evers
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John Joseph Evers was an American professional baseball second baseman and manager. He played in Major League Baseball from 1902 through 1917 for the Chicago Cubs, Boston Braves, and Philadelphia Phil
Evers with the Chicago Cubs in 1910
Johnny Evers boyhood home in Troy, New York.
Evers with the Cubs, circa 1910
A 1911 Johnny Evers T205 Tobacco Card
Baseball's Sad Lexicon
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"Baseball's Sad Lexicon", also known as "Tinker to Evers to Chance" after its refrain, is a 1910 baseball poem by Franklin Pierce Adams. The eight-line poem is presented as a single, rueful stanza fro
Johnny Evers
…Evers was a part of a great double-play combination with Joe Tinker and Frank Chance, which was immortalized as "Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance" in the poem "Baseball's Sad Lexicon". Evers was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame by the Veterans Committee in 1946. Evers was born on July 21, 1881, in Troy, New York. His father…
Tinker baseball card
Evers baseball card
Frank Chance Baseball Card