Baseball’s Sad Lexicon
Franklin P. Adams
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Baseball's Sad Lexicon by Franklin P. Adams
Release Date
Tue Jul 12 1910
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One of the most famous poems ever written about baseball is this eight-line bit about the infield trio of Joe Tinker, Johnny Evers, and Frank Chance, who started for the Chicago Cubs during their glory days of the 1900s. It was initially published in the New York Evening Mail under the title “That D...
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Baseball’s Sad Lexicon Annotated
These are the saddest of possible words:
Tinker to Evers to Chance.
Trio of Bear-cubs, fleeter than birds,
Tinker to Evers to Chance.
Ruthlessly pricking our gonfalon bubble,
Making a Giant hit into a double --
Words that are weighty with nothing but trouble:
Tinker to Evers to Chance.
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Baseball’s Sad Lexicon was written by Franklin P. Adams.
When did Franklin P. Adams release Baseball’s Sad Lexicon?
Franklin P. Adams released Baseball’s Sad Lexicon on Tue Jul 12 1910.