Displayed are four (4) 1910s Johnny Evers Boston Braves vintage, original, film negatives. Evers is a Hall of Fame second baseman who played in the National League during 18 seasons: Chicago Orphans/Cubs (1902-12), Boston Braves (1914-17 & '29), Philadelphia Phillies (1917), Chicago White Sox (1929). Evers batted a career .270, with 324 stolen bases. He was on three World Championship teams: the Chicago Cubs in 1907-08 and the Boston Braves in 1914. In 1908, in an infamous game when his Cubs faced the New York Giants at New York City's Polo Grounds, Evers noticed that the Giants' Fred Merkle, the runner on first base, had run off the field with two out before touching second base when the apparent winning run scored on a seeming single. Merkle did what many players did at that time: run off the field to avoid the crowds that entered the playing area at the Polo Grounds after a game was over. Evers somehow came up with a baseball that he said was the game ball in play at that time and touched second base to force out Merkle. The League President ordered the game replayed and the Cubs won that special contest, ultimately clinching the Pennant. In 1914, Evers joined the Boston Braves. Known as the "Miracle Braves," Boston was in last place on July 4, 1914, and then rallied to win the NL Pennant and the World Series. Evers hit .279 in '14, and his .976 fielding percentage led all NL second baseman, and he won that season's NL Chalmers' Award, the equivalent of today's MVP. Later in his career, Evers also managed the Chicago Cubs and the Chicago White Sox. While with the Cubs, Evers turned many double plays with shortstop Joe Tinker and first baseman Frank Chance. Evers was immortalized in a poem called "Baseball's Sad Lexicon" by Franklin P. Adams. The stanza is written from the point of view of a New York Giants fan. The memorable lines from that poem are: "These are the saddest of possible words, Tinker to Evers to Chance." Those lines most likely helped Evers into the Hall of Fame to join Tinker and Chance, his double play partners. The offering has four (4) negatives, each measuring approx. 3.5x5.5". These vintage negatives are from the camera. One negative is of Evers in a batting stance, another posed with his bat on his shoulder, one is a posed shot from the waist up, and another is a posed shot from the waist up, standing at an angle. The negatives are in EXCELLENT condition. One could make some fine prints from these. The negatives all look to be by the same photographer, and they originate from the Brown Brothers Collection.