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• He played on three consecutive pennant-winning teams.
• Evers was the 1917 MVP.
• “The Crab” was one-third of the Chicago Cubs notorious double-play trio. The
trilogy of baseball was comprised of Evers, Joe Tinker and Frank Chance
(aka
the Chicago
Cubs Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance infield).
• Johnny Evers was presented with a brand new Chalmers automobile as winner of the 1914 Chalmers Award, a predecessor of today's Most Valuable Player Award.
• He was elected to the Hall of Fame in 1946.
• He was the first player to win three World Series rings.
• His regimen after games was to curl up in bed with a few candy bars and study the baseball rulebook.
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