It’s
about time I get around to creating a “Nicknames of the ‘70’s” card for
Red Sox all-star outfielder Dwight “Dewey” Evans, who formed a third of
what was an extraordinary young outfield for the Boston franchise in
the late-70’s/Early-80s:
Evans was part of the amazing outfield comprised of himself, Jim Rice
and Fred Lynn who all came up in the mid-70’s and went on to excellent
Major League careers.
For Evans, it was a career that lasted 20-years, all but one, his last in 1991 with the Baltimore Orioles, with Boston.
This was a career that included eight Gold Gloves and three All-Star
nods, while finishing in the top-10 in American League MVP voting four
times, while finishing up with 2446 hits, 385 home runs and 1384 runs
batted in, all with a .272 average in over 2600 games and just under
9000 at-bats.
Let’s not forget that the man had an absolute gun for an arm out in
right-field while being one of the top outfielders in the Junior Circuit
over the course of his career.
Often overshadowed by teammates throughout his career, Evans would end
up as a borderline Hall of Famer, outplaying many of the very guys that
got the spotlight.