J. Evers Cubs chest

John Joseph "Johnny" Evers (1881–1947), known as "The Crab" for his sideways gait at second base and his combative temperament, appears here in the T206 White Border Cubs chest pose. Born July 21, 1881 in Troy, New York, the slight left-handed hitter who threw right debuted with Chicago in 1902 and was the middle name in Franklin P. Adams's "Tinker to Evers to Chance" verse. Across an eighteen-year career through 1929, with most of the work coming in eleven Cubs seasons through 1913, he won four pennants and two World Series titles in Chicago and a third championship as the second baseman of the 1914 "Miracle" Boston Braves, taking that year's Chalmers MVP Award. He famously played the alert role in Fred Merkle's 1908 base-running blunder, an out call that handed Chicago a tied pennant race and ultimately the title. He later managed the Cubs and the White Sox in brief stints. He died March 28, 1947 in Albany, New York and is buried at St. Mary's Cemetery in Troy. The Hall of Fame elected him with Tinker and Chance in 1946.