Joe Tinker
Johnny Evers
Frank Chance
Baseballs Sad Lexicon, the author was Franklin Pierce Adams
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Baseball's Sad Lexicon
by Franklin Pierce Adams ©
Published: New York Evening Mail (July 10, 1910)
These are the saddest of possible words:
"Tinker to Evers to Chance."
Trio of bear cubs, and fleeter than birds,
Tinker and Evers and Chance.
Ruthlessly pricking our gonfalon bubble,
Making a Giant hit into a double-
Words that are heavy with nothing but trouble:
"Tinker to Evers to Chance."
Baseball's Sad Lexicon by Franklin Pierce Adams