While the word “umpire” most often evokes images of an older sage in the minds of baseball fans, fresh-faced Billy Evans was anything “old” when he debuted as an American League umpire in 1906.
At a remarkable 22 years of age, Evans became the youngest umpire in major league history and began a 22-year career in which he worked six World Series.
Furthermore, Evans was a baseball renaissance man. He was an accomplished sportswriter at the same time he was an umpire, and later became a front office executive for three major league teams.
