Johnny Evers
John Joseph "Johnny" Evers ( born July 21, 1881 in Troy, New York, † March 28, 1947 in Albany, New York) was an American baseball player and manager in Major League Baseball. His nicknames were Crab and Trojan.
Biography
Johnny Evers began his career as a second baseman for the Chicago Cubs in the National League at September 1, 1902 and became part of the famous Tinker to Evers to Chance infield of the Cubs, which in the poem Baseball 's Sad Lexicon of the New York newspaper columnist Franklin Pierce Adams immortalized.
Evers reached with the Cubs three times the World Series. 1907 and 1908 the team from Chicago won the title each. Evers had a batting average of 35 % in both series. Evers was one of the smallest and lightest player of all time in the Major Leagues. He is said to have weighed according to reports at the beginning of his career just 45 kg, and never come in his career over 59 kg. In 1913 he worked for the Cubs in a dual role as player and manager.
In 1914 he was transferred to the Boston Braves. With them he won in the same year his third World Series. He also was named the MVP of the National League. By 1917, he played with the Braves, then moved during the season to the Philadelphia Phillies. After that, he did his military service in World War II. After his return, he worked mainly as a coach. As a manager, he was in 1921 with the Cubs in 1924 and worked with the White Sox. In 1922, he played one more game at the White Sox, his last game then followed seven years later on October 6, 1929 for the Boston Braves.
A year before his death in 1947 he was accepted by the Veterans Committee in the Baseball Hall of Fame.