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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.
Franklin Pierce Adams (November 15, 1881 – March 23, 1960) was an American columnist known as Franklin P. Adams and by his initials F.P.A. Famed for his wit, he is best known for his newspaper column, "The Conning Tower", and his appearances as a regular panelist on radio's Information Please.
A satirical poem by Franklin Pierce Adams with the title "No Good Deed Goes Unpunished (So Shines a Good Deed in a Naughty World)" also exists. [ 5 ] In 2005, author David Helvarg introduced the concept that the punishment may be a form of retaliation , in a piece he wrote for Grist Magazine , "Remember that sign they hung up in an EPA office ...
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 ...
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Franklin Pierce Adams (died 1960), American columnist (pen name: F.P.A.), writer and wit, part of the Algonquin Round Table of the 1920s and 1930s whose newspaper column introduced the public to many poets and writers; Masamune Atsuo 正宗敦夫 (died 1958), Japanese poet and academic (surname: Masamune)
In every game Franklin Pierce’s boys soccer team has played in this season, the Cardinals have scored at least one goal. So when Sammy Tafolla’s team went down 1-0 in the WIAA Class 2A boys ...
Mullins' work was included in Modern American Poetry: A Critical Anthology by Louis Untermeyer in 1930. [1] Helene Mullins (née Gallegher) was born in New Rochelle, New York. Aside from some time spent in Hollywood, Santa Fe, and Washington DC, the poet lived most of her adult life in New York City.