Ernie Nevers,
who played his entire career with the St. Louis Browns, and just caught the tail end
of the George Sisler-Ken Williams-Baby Doll Jacobson era, is the only major
league baseball player to have a football team named after him. Read all about
it in today’s
Minneapolis Star Tribune. The team
was called “Ernie Nevers’ Eskimos”.
So when you see Vikings fans swooning over Case Keenum or Sam Bradford, realize that Minnesotans four generations ago were rooting for Ernest Alonzo Nevers, the pride of Willow River, MN.
So when you see Vikings fans swooning over Case Keenum or Sam Bradford, realize that Minnesotans four generations ago were rooting for Ernest Alonzo Nevers, the pride of Willow River, MN.
Nevers was also later a
Cardinal. A St. Louis Cardinal? No not that
kind of Cardinal. A Chicago Cardinal. Confused yet??
Nevers was also signed
right out of Stanford by manager
George Sisler. The Sporting News of Thursday,
January 7, 1926 speculates it was a one elite college man to another thing”
which enabled Sisler to outbid the New Giants who had already announced in late
1925 that they had Nevers all-but sewn up.
