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Dave Farrell, Bill Fitz, and various combinations and permutations thereof were just a little too much for the sailors. The two players hit pay-dirt twice on their own. In the opening minutes of play the Chief Boston equivalent of Tinker to Evers was uncorked for the first tally. Bucky...
The Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance double-play combination was declared officially famous. Shortstop Joseph Tinker (ailing off & on in Florida), 2nd Baseman John J. Evers (bedridden with paralysis in Albany), and ist Baseman Frank Chance (dead 22 years) were finally admitted to baseball's Hall of Fame in...
Evers Has a Chance. Not even the great Joe Di Maggio, after three G.I. years, was taking any chances. Hollow-cheeked, 31, and still nursing ulcers, Di Mag stepped to bat one day last week, swung as if the final game of the World Series depended on it, clouted one...
At spring training's halfway point, most of the wartimers were going down, the oldtimers were coming up; and a half dozen flashy rookies were having both ups & downs. One little slip by any one of the trio of Wakefield, Mullin and McCosky. and a well-muscled youngster named...
* No kin to John J. (Johnny) Evers of the famed double-play terrors, Tinker to Evers to Chance.