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Joe Tinker baseball card, 1912 Tinker led all shortstops in the NL in double plays turned in the 1905 season. [ 5 ] Led by Tinker, Evers and Chance, the Cubs had a 116–36 win–loss record in the 1906 season, a record for victories that only was matched by the Seattle Mariners in the 2001 season, [ 6 ] in which the Mariners played ten more ...
Evers made his MLB debut with the Cubs on September 1 at shortstop, as Selee moved Joe Tinker from shortstop to third base. [1] Only three players in the National League (NL) were younger than Evers: Jim St. Vrain, Jimmy Sebring, and Lave Winham. [6] Three days later, Selee returned Tinker to shortstop and assigned Evers to second base. [1]
"Baseball's Sad Lexicon," also known as "Tinker to Evers to Chance" after its refrain, is a 1910 baseball poem by Franklin Pierce Adams. The eight-line poem is presented as a single, rueful stanza from the point of view of a New York Giants fan watching the Chicago Cubs infield of shortstop Joe Tinker, second baseman Johnny Evers, and first baseman Frank Chance complete a double play.
Joe Tinker scored a run and drove in another in Game 2 after being pinch-hit for in the ninth inning of Game 1. Hughie Jennings was the recipient of the first ejection issued in World Series history when he argued a caught stealing call by Hank O'Day against Germany Schaefer. [7]
John Joseph Tinker (15 January 1875 – 30 July 1957) was a British Labour Party politician. Born in Little Hulton , Tinker began working at a coal mine at the age of ten. He became active in the Lancashire and Cheshire Miners' Federation , and became the union's full-time agent for the St Helens area in 1915.
With Joe Tinker and Johnny Evers, Chance formed a strong double play combination, which was immortalized as "Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance" in "Baseball's Sad Lexicon". Let go by the Cubs after the 1912 season, Chance signed with the Yankees, serving as a player–manager for two seasons.
Joe Tinker, shortstop on the Cubs from 1902 to 1912 and a daring baserunner, later the player-manager of the Chicago Federal League team, winning that league's pennant in 1915. The defensive standout led the NL in fielding average four times.
In the Cubs' half of the third inning, Tinker led off with a triple and scored on a single by Johnny Kling. Evers walked, Frank Schulte followed with an RBI double to give the Cubs the lead, and Frank Chance followed with a two-run double. [35] From there, Chicago cruised to a 4–2 victory, becoming champions of the NL for the third straight year.