George "Honey Boy" Evans

He spent two weeks in March 1908 with the Philadelphia Phillies at spring training in Savannah, Georgia where he stayed and practiced with the team and socialized with the players.

The Phillies named their team of younger players the "Honey Boys" in intrasquad games against the regulars in honor of Evans.

[3] Beginning in 1908, he commissioned a silver cup that he presented at season end to the "World's Championship Batsman", the player having the highest batting average in all of Major League Baseball.

(Honus Wagner, the great Pittsburgh Pirate shortstop, won the initial award in 1908, after having been offered $10,000 per-year to come out of retirement.

[citation needed] He died at Union Baptist Hospital in Baltimore of stomach cancer on 5 March 1915.