Erik Sherman, left with John Vorerian
By John Vorperian
White Plains Community Media host, John Vorperian and award-winning Baseball historian, Erik Sherman discuss the career of Boston Red Sox legend Dwight Evans on a current streaming edition of BEYOND THE GAME. The episode can be seen at www.wpcommunitymedia.org.
Dwight Evans played in 2,505 games in Boston, second only to Carl Yastrzemski and hit 379 home runs for the club, trailing only Yastrzemski and Ted Williams. No one hit more home runs in the American League and no player had more extra-base hits in all of baseball in the 1980s than the man nicknamed Dewey. Eight gold gloves confirmed Evans as the best right fielder of his era.
During his playing days what was not known to the public and many of his teammates was Evans two sons were afflicted with the fatal affliction neurofibromatosis (NF), a disease that produces tumors in the brain, spinal cord, and nerves. The one Red Sox, Dewey confided with was Carl Yastrzemski as the slugger had lost a son.
That tragic fact of dealing with two children suffering with NF and playing a sport at its highest level was finally openly and fully revealed in his 2024 biography collaborated with Sherman, DEWEY: Behind the Gold Glove.
Strictly given his baseball numbers it is a mystery Evans name was not on the Hall of Fame’s Classic Baseball Era Committee’s ballot for 2025 Induction.
