Editing Johnny Evers (section)

==Legacy==
[[File:Johnny Evers Hall of Fame plaque.jpg|thumb|Evers' plaque of at the [[National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum|Baseball Hall of Fame]]]]
Evers retired in 1918, having batted .300 or higher twice in his career, [[stolen base|stolen]] 324 bases and scored 919 runs. He frequently argued with umpires and received numerous suspensions during his career.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=5NxPAAAAIBAJ&pg=3841,6068956&dq=johnny-evers&hl=en|title=National Prexy Hands Evers Three-Day Suspension For Baiting Umps|agency=Associated Press|page=9|newspaper=The Evening Independent|date=May 20, 1929|access-date=March 29, 2013}}</ref> His combative play and fights with umpires earned him the nickname "The Human Crab".<ref name=humancrab>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=kdksAAAAIBAJ&pg=3382,435956&dq=johnny-evers+albany&hl=en|title=Johnny Evers Warns Players Not to Fight With Umpires|agency=United Press International|page=2|newspaper=The Bulletin|location=Bend, Oregon|date=July 31, 1942|access-date=March 29, 2013}}</ref>

Evers served as the pivot man in the "Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance" [[double-play]] combination, which inspired the classic baseball poem "[[Baseball's Sad Lexicon]]", written by ''[[New York Evening Mail]]'' newspaper columnist [[Franklin Pierce Adams]] in July 1910.<ref>{{cite book|last=Ashley|first=Sally|year=1986|title=F.P.A.: The Life and Times of Franklin P. Adams|publisher=Beaufort|page=65}}</ref> Evers, Tinker, and Chance were all inducted in the Hall of Fame in the same year.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=D4YhAAAAIBAJ&pg=2068,92886&dq=johnny-evers&hl=en|title=New Plaques Placed in Baseball Hall of Fame|agency=[[International News Service]]|page=11|newspaper=Reading Eagle|date=July 21, 1947|access-date=March 29, 2013}}</ref>

The Merkle play remains one of the most famous in baseball history. The ball used in the Merkle play was sold at an auction in the 1990s for $27,500, making it one of the four most valuable baseballs based on purchase price.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/happened-infamous-ball-merkle-blunder-article-1.324910 |title=What happened to the infamous ball from 'The Merkle Blunder'? |work=New York Daily News |first=David |last=Hinckley|date=September 22, 2008|access-date=July 18, 2012}}</ref> Evers' role in Merkle's boner cemented his legacy as a smart ballplayer.

Evers is mentioned in the 1949 poem "[[Line-Up for Yesterday]]" by [[Ogden Nash]]:

{{quote box |width= 18em |border= 4px |align= center |bgcolor= #FAF0E6 |qalign= center | title=Line-Up for Yesterday|<poem>E is for Evers,
His jaw in advance;
Never afraid
to [[Joe Tinker|Tinker]] with [[Frank Chance|Chance]].</poem>
|source=&nbsp;— [[Ogden Nash]], [[Sport (US magazine)|''Sport'' magazine]] (January 1949)<ref>{{cite news|title=N is for Nash and his poem that's a smash|first=Don|last=Freeman|newspaper=[[The San Diego Union-Tribune]]|date=October 19, 1992}}</ref>}}