Editing Johnny Evers (section)

==Personal==
In January 1909, Evers married Helen Fitzgibbons.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=KepRAAAAIBAJ&pg=6002,260316&dq=johnny-evers+albany&hl=en|title=Helen Evers, Widow of Baseball Great|page=11–B|newspaper=St. Petersburg Times|date=January 11, 1974|access-date=March 29, 2013}}</ref> His son, John J. Evers, Jr., born later that year, served as a [[Lieutenant]] in World War II and was assigned to the [[Asiatic-Pacific Theater|Pacific Theater of Operations]].<ref>{{Cite news |date=1944-01-16 |title=Famed Johnny Evers Still Follows Game |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-palm-beach-post-famed-johnny-evers-s/163486381/ |access-date=2025-01-20 |work=The Palm Beach Post |page=16 |via=[[Newspapers.com]] |agency=Associated Press}}</ref> During 1914, John Jr. became ill with scarlet fever and was being quarantined at home in Troy. A doctor granted Helen permission to allow their daughter Helen (then three at the time) to visit her ailing brother. Unfortunately, while John Jr. got better, Helen became ill and died weeks later. After that, Evers and his wife's uncertain marriage (made difficult because of their separated lives that saw him live in Chicago and her live in Troy) fell apart and the two essentially separated. When Helen died in 1974, she was buried with Evers in the same plot in Troy. When his son was 11 years old, Evers bought part of the Albany Senators and gave him the stock.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1921/01/28/archives/johnny-evers-jr-becomes-baseball-magnate-at-11.html |title=Johnny Evers Jr. Becomes Baseball Magnate at 11 |newspaper=The New York Times|date=January 28, 1921 |access-date=July 18, 2012}}</ref> Evers' brother, [[Joe Evers]], and uncle, [[Tom Evers]], also played in MLB.<ref name=sabr/> His great-nephew is ''[[Sports Illustrated]]'' writer Tim Layden, who wrote an article about him in 2012.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://vault.si.com/vault/2012/12/03/tinker-to-evers-to-chance-to-me|title=Tinker to Evers to Chance . . . to Me|first=Tim|last=Layden|work=Sports Illustrated|date=December 3, 2012}}</ref>

Though Evers and Tinker were part of one of the most successful double-play combinations in baseball history, the two despised each other off of the field.<ref name=sabr/> They went several years without speaking to each other after one argument.<ref>{{cite book|last=James|first=Bill|author-link=Bill James|year=1995|title=[[Whatever Happened to the Hall of Fame?]]|publisher=Simon & Schuster|pages=207–208|isbn=0684800888}}</ref> When Chance once named Tinker the smartest ballplayer he knew, Evers took it as a personal affront.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1913/02/18/archives/dentists-after-baseball-job-applications-still-arriving-at-the.html |title=Dentists After Baseball Job&nbsp;— Applications Still Arriving at the Giants' Office&nbsp;— Shafer to Sign at Marlin|newspaper=The New York Times|date=February 18, 1913 |access-date=July 18, 2012}}</ref>