Baseball's Sad Lexicon

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rdf:langString The three Chicago Cubs of the poem

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rdf:langString Brought to the leash and smashed in the jaw, Evers to Tener to Taft. Hounded and hustled outside of the law, Evers to Tener to Taft. Torn from the Cubs and the glitter of gold, Stripped of the guerdons and glory untold, Kicked in the stomach and cut from the fold, Evers to Tener to Taft.

rdf:langString "C. Murphy – His Lyric," Sporting Life, Mar. 14, 1914, p. 12.

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rdf:langString "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. These three players helped the Cubs win four National League championships and two World Series from 1906 to 1910. "Baseball's Sad Lexicon" became popular across the United States among sportswriters, who wrote their own verses along the same vein. The poem only enhanced the reputations of Tinker, Evers, and Chance over the succeeding decades as the phrase became synonymous with a feat of smooth and ruthless efficiency. It has been credited with their elections to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1946.

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