Johnny Evers: A Baseball Life

Johnny Evers: A Baseball Life

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**2015 SEYMOUR MEDAL FINALIST**
**CASEY AWARD FINALIST FORÂ BEST BASEBALL BOOKÂ OF 2014**
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 more thanÂ a part ofÂ "Tinker to Evers to Chance."Â He was a gifted player in all phases of the game, a master strategist,Â andÂ the heartbeat of one of the greatest teams of the 20th century; he was alsoÂ the fiercest competitor this side of Ty Cobb.Â Evers was at the center of one of baseball's greatest controversies, a chance event that cemented his stardom and stole a pennant from John McGraw and the New York Giants in 1908.Â Four years later, following a stunning set of reversals and tragedies that resulted in his suffering a nervous breakdown,Â Evers embarked onÂ a comeback that culminated in his leading the 1914Â Boston BravesÂ 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.
Country USA
Brand McFarland
Manufacturer McFarland
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber black & white halftones
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780786475919
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Brand	McFarland
Manufacturer	McFarland
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	black & white halftones
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780786475919
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

Johnny Evers: A Baseball Life

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