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"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.
Tinker is perhaps best known for the "Tinker to Evers to Chance" double play combination in the poem "Baseball's Sad Lexicon", written by the New York Evening Mail newspaper columnist Franklin Pierce Adams in July 1910. The poem was written as a lamentation from the perspective of a New York Giants fan on how the team is consistently defeated ...
During his time on the Evening Mail, Adams wrote what remains his best known work, the poem "Baseball's Sad Lexicon," a tribute to the Chicago Cubs' double play combination of "Tinker to Evers to Chance". In 1911, he added a second column, a parody of Samuel Pepys's Diary, with notes drawn from F.P.A.'s personal experiences.
Pages in category "1910 poems" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. ... 1910 in poetry; B. Baseball's Sad Lexicon; C. Cold Iron (poem) I. If— ...
Charles Follen Adams, Yawcob Strauss and Other Poems [6] Franklin Pierce Adams, Baseball's Sad Lexicon, also known as "Tinker to Evers to Chance" after its refrain; a popular baseball poem; Robert Underwood Johnson, Saint-Gaudens, an Ode [6] John A. Lomax, Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads [6] Ezra Pound: Provenca [7] The Spirit of ...
Baseball's Sad Lexicon; C. Casey at the Bat; L. ... Pray for Rain (poem) This page was last edited on 13 September 2024, at 17:25 (UTC). Text is available under the ...
Evers served as the pivot man in the "Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance" double-play combination, which inspired the classic baseball poem "Baseball's Sad Lexicon", written by New York Evening Mail newspaper columnist Franklin Pierce Adams in July 1910. [64] Evers, Tinker, and Chance were all inducted in the Hall of Fame in the same year. [65]
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