evers

This is the best photo I have ever seen of Evers, even if it is a tad underexposed. If he played today, he would never make the Hall of Fame. However, players are chosen as to how they performed versus their peers, and he was a great second baseman, better than Fred Merkle, he of boner fame, from the NY Giants.

Sad that the cubbies hadn't won a very recent World Series, even when he was playing.

Pineapple, Johnny Evers played for the Cubs from 1902 to 1913, including both years they won the World Series (1907and 1908).

Wow! I love the DOF. This is great.

This is the Evers of "Tinker to Evers to Chance" fame from the baseball poem, "Baseball's Sad Lexicon" by Franklin Pierce Adams.(1910)

baseballhall.org/hof/evers-johnny Biography: Johnny Evers was a smart, scrappy and determined second baseman and the pivot man in the famed Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance infield. His knowledge of the rules enabled him to turn the 1908 National League pennant race around, as a result of the infamous Fred Merkle play. He helped lead the Chicago Cubs to four National League pennants and two world championships. 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.

Any reason LOC is not using the original caption where accurate? In this case, you are omitting key info.

@artolog: The SABR project focused on naming players and teams, using a stock pattern to devise for titles that replaced the severely abbreviated words scratched on the negatives. The words on the negatives were retained in the notes area. In this case, though, you're right. This negative has a full-blown title that identifies the scene well. We'll exchange the titles and subject notes. -- Helena