In Other Words/Baseball's Sad Lexicon

by Franklin P. Adams

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Baseball’s Sad Lexicon

 

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.”