Johnny Evers

Born July 21, 1881, in Troy, New York, was Baseball Hall of Fame Second Baseman Johnny Evers. Evers was part of the World Series Champion teams of 1907, 08 as a member of the Chicago Orphans/Cubs. In 1914 Johnny won the National League and the World Series MVP honors with the Boston Braves. He later served as the manager of the Chicago Cubs and went again tho the World Series. Evers was a smart ball player but he also had a salty temperment that he sometimes took out on umpires. 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.