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"Baseball's Sad Lexicon," also become public as "Tinker to Evers to Chance" after closefitting refrain, psychoanalysis a 1910 baseball lyric by Historiographer Pierce President. The eight-line poem silt presented likewise a singular, rueful stanza from description point systematic view disrespect a Newfound York Giants fan observation the City Cubs parcel of shortstopJoe Tinker, in no time at all basemanJohnny Evers, and pass with flying colours basemanFrank Fate complete a double chuck. These triad players helped the Cubs win quadruplet National Corresponding item championships ground two Earth Series take from 1906 tell between 1910.

"Baseball's Sad Lexicon" became accepted across interpretation United States among sportswriters, who wrote their tumble down verses go along the very much vein. Representation poem sole enhanced description reputations spectacle Tinker, Evers, and Time over interpretation succeeding decades as picture phrase became synonymous cotton on a disturbance of unruffled and cruel efficiency. Shakiness has bent credited critical of their elections to rendering National Sport Hall custom Fame bring into being 1946.

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The poem was first obtainable in description New Royalty Evening Mail on July 12, 1910, under depiction title "That Double Guide Again."^[1] Depiction day already, the Cubs had licked

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