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  Johnny Evers - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
Evers, a second baseman, made it to the big leagues with the Chicago Cubs in 1902 and played for the Cubs through 1913, during which time he appeared in three World Series and won two (in 1907 and 1908).
In 1914 Evers was traded to the Boston Braves, which proved to be a spectacular combination - the Braves won the World Series, and Evers won the Chalmers Award (a forerunner of the MVP award).
Evers is perhaps best known as the pivot man in the "Tinker to Evers to Chance" double play combination immortalized in the poem "Baseball's Sad Lexicon" by New York newspaper columnist Franklin Pierce Adams.
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 Johnny Evers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
Evers a second baseman made it to the big leagues the Chicago Cubs in 1902 and played for the Cubs through 1913 during which time he appeared in World Series and won two (in 1907 and 1908).
In 1914 Evers was traded to the Boston Braves which proved to be a spectacular - the Braves won the World Series Evers won the Chalmers Award (a forerunner the MVP award).
Evers is perhaps best known as the man in the "Tinker to Evers to Chance " double play combination immortalized in the poem "Baseball's Lexicon" by New York newspaper columnist Franklin Pierce Adams.
www.freeglossary.com /Johnny_Evers   (481 words)

  
 Johnny Evers
Evers was the second baseman in the double-play trio of "Tinker to Evers to Chance," immortalized by Franklin Adams in the poem "Baseball's Sad Lexicon."
Evers was hurt for most of 1911, and player-manager Chance had retired as a player to devote his full energies to managing.
In the Miracle Braves sweep of the Athletics in the 1914 Series, Evers batted.438 and drove in the winning runs in the final 3-1 victory; he was the key member of the Miracle braves team, and won the MVP Award, edging out Maranville and Braves pitcher Bill James.
www.baseball-statistics.com /HOF/Evers.htm   (572 words)

  
 Johnny Evers -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
Evers played with the Braves until (Click link for more info and facts about 1917) 1917, when he was claimed off waivers by the (Click link for more info and facts about Philadelphia Phillies) Philadelphia Phillies in mid-season.
Evers managed three teams, the (Click link for more info and facts about 1913) 1913 Chicago Cubs, the (Click link for more info and facts about 1921) 1921 Cubs, and the (Click link for more info and facts about 1924) 1924 (Click link for more info and facts about Chicago White Sox) Chicago White Sox.
Evers was inducted into the (Click link for more info and facts about Baseball Hall of Fame) Baseball Hall of Fame in (Click link for more info and facts about 1946) 1946.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/j/jo/johnny_evers.htm   (329 words)

  
 Johnny Evers Baseball Stats by Baseball Almanac   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
Johnny Evers was born on Thursday, July 21, 1881, in Troy, New York.
Evers was 21 years old when he broke into the big leagues on September 1, 1902, with the Chicago Cubs, and his Major League Baseball stats for every season he played, along with his career totals are on this page.
Johnny Evers's biographical data, year-by-year hitting stats, fielding stats, pitching stats (where applicable) career totals, uniform numbers, salary data and miscellaneous items-of-interest are presented by Baseball Almanac on this Johnny Evers baseball statistics page.
www.baseball-almanac.com /players/player.php?p=eversjo01   (198 words)

  
 Autograph Analysis and Signing Habits of Hall of Fame Second Baseman John Joseph ''The Crab'' Evers - PSA Library
Evers, calling for the ball and stepping on second base in the 1908 World Series, was the reason why New York's Fred Merkle would spend the rest of his life being called "Bonehead" for the rookie's baserunning oversight.
On March 28, 1947, Johnny Evers died at the age of 65 succumbing to a cerebral hemorrhage at St. Peter's Hospital in Albany, NY.
Johnny Evers was always an accommodating autograph signer whether it was in person or through the mail.
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 BIOPROJ.SABR.ORG :: The Baseball Biography Project.
Evers was batting.285 and leading the New York State League with 10 home runs (only two less than he hit in his entire 18-year major-league career), but he was regarded as a nuisance because of his short temper and his insistence that the local ballpark be available for practice at all times of the day.
Evers was as high-strung as he was brainy-one reporter described him as a "keen little umpire-fighting bundle of nerves"-and sometimes those nerves got the better of him.
Evers said he wouldn't report, and his refusal was made more piquant by the fact that the Federal League was offering him $30,000 to forsake the NL altogether.
bioproj.sabr.org /bioproj.cfm?a=v&v=l&bid=907&pid=4219   (2306 words)

  
 Johnny Evers | BaseballLibrary.com
Evers and Tinker, despite their on-field teamwork, didn't speak to each other their final years together, the result of some imagined slight, and often traded punches in the clubhouse.
When Evers came back from Europe and WWI, he coached briefly for former enemy John McGraw on the Giants and was assistant manager for the Cubs in 1921.
Evers will be suspended for five days, and though the Cubs win three games, there will be a howl that president Lynch is favoring the Giants.
www.baseballlibrary.com /baseballlibrary/ballplayers/E/Evers_Johnny.stm   (2200 words)

  
 HickokSports.com - Biography - Johnny Evers
Evers, a student of the rules, knew that the runner could be forced out at second if he failed to advance in that situation.
Evers' best season was 1912, when he batted.341, a remarkable aberration; his second best average was an even.300 in 1908.
Evers managed the Cubs once more for part of the 1921 season, and he was manager of the Chicago White Sox in 1924.
www.hickoksports.com /biograph/eversjohn.shtml   (470 words)

  
 1908 - The Giants and the Cubs
Johnny Evers started it off with a roller to short and was able to take second when Bridwell threw the ball away.
Johnny Evers was able to coax a walk from Wiltse, and Moran lined a double over third to bring Tinker to the plate.
For Evers to ask O'Day to enforce it would be like a current manager asking an umpire to change the results of a play because the catcher had blocked the plate while he didn't have the ball.
www.thediamondangle.com /marasco/hist/1908.html   (8484 words)

  
 Business Council testimony on draft State Energy Plan -- March 5, 2002
Evers noted that the draft State Energy Plan projects growth in peak demand from.68 percent a year (the mid-range prediction) to 1.1 percent per year (the high-end prediction).
Evers cited a recent research report by The Business Council's research affiliate, The Public Policy Institute, which estimated that New York must increase its electricity generating capacity by at least 9,200 megawatts over the next five years.
Evers said New York was wise to restructure its energy markets administratively, rather than with a legislature-directed approach like the one embraced by California.
www.bcnys.org /whatsnew/2002/0305sep.htm   (605 words)

  
 cubs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
Anson was arguably the best player in baseball in his day, though he is chiefly remembered today for his role in establishing baseball's color line than for his playing and managerial skill.
Joe Tinker (SS), Johnny Evers (2B) and Frank Chance (1B) were three legendary Cubs infielders, who played together from 1903-1910, and sporadically over the following two years.
Evers, a high-strung, argumentative man, suffered a nervous breakdown in 1911 and rarely played that year.
www.yourencyclopedia.net /Cubs.html   (981 words)

  
 McFarland - Publisher of Reference and Scholarly Books
Johnny Evers was widely considered the brainiest ballplayer of his day and, along with Ty Cobb, one of the most guileful and cantankerous.
Johnny Evers played 18 seasons in the major leagues, spending most of that time with the Chicago Cubs.
Evers was elected to the Hall of Fame in 1946.
www.mcfarlandpub.com /book-2.php?isbn=0-7864-1869-9   (242 words)

  
 Johnny Evers | The BASEBALL Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
Evers may have been the best player of the famed Cub infield trio.
Due in large part to the poem that immortalized the Cub double play trio, Tinker, Evers, and Chance were selected for the Hall of Fame in 1946.
Evers was the only living member of the trio, and he died six months later.
www.thebaseballpage.com /past/pp/eversjohnny   (260 words)

  
 Joe Tinker | BaseballLibrary.com
Tinker was immortalized in Franklin P. Adams's verse, "Baseball's Sad Lexicon," better-known, although incorrectly so, as "Tinker to Evers to Chance." An intelligent, smooth-fielding, mediocre-hitting shortstop, Tinker and second baseman Johnny Evers, first baseman Frank Chance, and third baseman Harry Steinfeldt formed one of the better defensive infields of the day.
Along with Evers and Chance, he was elected to the Hall of Fame by the Committee on Baseball Veterans in 1946.
and Johnny Evers engage in a fist fight on the field during an exhibition game in Washington, IN, because Evers took a taxi to the park, leaving his teammates in the hotel lobby.
www.baseballlibrary.com /baseballlibrary/ballplayers/T/Tinker_Joe.stm   (1542 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Chicago Cubs
Johnny Evers baseball card, 1911 John Joseph Evers (July 21, 1881 - March 28, 1947) was a Major League Baseball player and manager.
Also, in the still-in-modern-usage expression "Tinker to Evers to Chance", meaning a well-oiled routine or a "sure thing", people tend to pronounce it "EH-verz", when the proper pronunciation was "EE-verz".
Tinker and Evers reportedly became amicable in their old age, with the baseball wars far behind them.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Chicago-Cubs   (9369 words)

  
 Johnny Evers - Information
John Joseph Evers (July 21, 1881 March 28, 1947) was a Major League Baseball player and manager.
Evers was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame by the Veteran's Committee in 1946.
Johnny Evers died of a cerebral hemmorhage in 1947 in Albany, New York.
www.logicjungle.com /wiki/Johnny_Evers   (351 words)

  
 NameTraq | Last Name: Evers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
A Mississippi prosecutor and the widow of Medgar Evers crusade to retry a white racist for the 1963 murder of the NAACP leader.
Johnson was shot and killed at her home at 14810 Evers St. in the south suburb, in front of her three young children, Howard said.
Families of Medgar Evers, Vernon Dahmer Sr., Ben Chester White and the four girls killed in the Birmingham church bombing are being invited to gather Feb....
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 1908 NL MVP AWARD
Tinker was an outstanding defensive player, and was immortalized in a poem along with teammates Johnny Evers and Frank Chance.
Johnny Evers is in The Hall for the same reasons.
Evers was a better hitter than Tinker, which isn't saying much.
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 Tinker to Evers to Chance - Baseball Fever
Evers was one of the best fielding second basemen ever, and he also was a decent hitter.
Evers was almost as bad a hitter as Tinker, and was, according to most statistical models, a below average defender.
Johnny Evers was part of the Miracle Braves, and had his best season, that is most likely why he is a HOFer...and he didn't have much competition for 2nd base in the NL during his time
www.baseball-fever.com /showthread.php?t=30630   (2209 words)

  
 December 2, 2003 Energy Committee Meeting - The Business Council of NYS, Inc.
Johnny Evers introduced some new members of the committee as well as Anne Van Buren who was hired by The Business Council to handle Telecommunication and Transmission issues, Small Business and The Business Council's Political Action Committee.
The committee was briefed on the RPS proceeding by Johnny Evers and a brief history was presented.
In a related vein, Johnny Evers of The Business Council stated that at The Business Council's Board of Director's meeting and at The Council's Steering Committee meeting the issue was placed as the top issue among the five being pursued by The Business Council.
www.bcnys.org /inside/energy/120203minutes.htm   (1755 words)

  
 Autographed Baseballs -- 1914 Boston Braves (1-1)
Their victory was eased by the dilution of talent caused by player losses to the Federals and by a power vaccuum which saw the NL's dominant teams of the early twentieth century - the Giants, Cubs, and Pirates - in decline.
Evers, Maranville, and James were 1-2-3 in the voting for the Chalmers Award, given to the league's most valuable player.
Evers' absence is presumably attributable to the fact that the ball was retained by him as a keepsake; it remained in his family's possession for many years.
www.sports.nd.edu /exhibits/bbexhibit/balls/14bos1/14bos1.html   (1025 words)

  
 Johnny Evers | National Baseball Hall of Fame
Johnny Evers was a smart, scrappy and determined second baseman, as the pivot man in the famed Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance infield.
After joining Boston in 1914, Evers sparked another turnaround when the "Miracle Braves" rose from the cellar in July to a World Championship in October.
Tell someone about Johnny Evers by sending a free Hall of Fame Digital Postcard.
www.baseballhalloffame.org /hofers_and_honorees/hofer_bios/evers_johnny.htm   (276 words)

  
 BIOPROJ.SABR.ORG :: The Baseball Biography Project.
Forever poetically linked to Joe Tinker and Johnny Evers by F. Adams' "Baseball's Sad Lexicon," Frank Chance made his mark as the Cubs' player-manager from 1905 through 1912 as part of the "Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance" double play infield.
Although not widely regarded as one of the game's greatest fielders, Chance holds a special place in the hearts of Cub fans for his hustle and his hardnosed approach to motivating his players, not to mention guiding the much-maligned Cubs to their last two World Series titles in 1907 and 1908.
In 1903, when Johnny Kling, one of the best catchers of the era, took over the full responsibilities behind the plate, and regular first baseman Bill Hanlon unexpectedly abandoned the team, manager Frank Selee moved Chance to first base as a temporary replacement until a more suitable fielder could be found.
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