J. Evers Chi on shirt

Johnny Evers (1881–1947) was the "Crab" — a 125-pound second baseman with a temper that out-leveraged his frame and a glove that turned more rallies into 6-4-3 ledger lines than any infielder in the National League. A left-handed hitter who threw right, he played the middle of the famed Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance double-play combination on the Chicago Cubs teams that won four pennants and back-to-back World Series in 1907 and 1908. The "Chi on shirt" T206 White Border variation depicts him in the simpler block-letter Cubs jersey of the period, one of his poses in the foundational 1909–1911 tobacco issue. Evers later won a fifth pennant and a World Series with the 1914 "Miracle Braves." He died March 28, 1947 in Albany, New York. He was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1946 alongside Tinker and Chance, the trio entering Cooperstown together as the verse demanded.