For more than a century Johnny Evers has been conjoined with
Chicago Cubs teammates Frank Chance and Joe Tinker, thanks to eight
lines of verse penned by a well-known New York columnist. He has
been caricatured as a scrawny, sour man who couldn't hit and who
owed his fame to that poem. In truth Johnny Evers was the heartbeat
of one of the greatest teams of the 20th century and the fiercest
competitor this side of Ty Cobb. He was at the centre of one of
baseball's greatest controversies, a chance event that sealed his
stardom and stole a pennant from John McGraw and the New York
Giants in 1908. Six years later, following a stunning set of
reversals and tragedies that resulted in his suffering a nervous
breakdown, he made a comeback with the Boston Braves and led that
team to the most improbable of championships. Spanning the time
from his birth in Troy, New York, to his death less than a year
after his election to the Hall of Fame, this is the biography of a
man who literally wrote the book about playing his position and set
the standard for winning baseball.
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