Baseball's Sad Lexicon

Baseball’s Sad Lexicon

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BY FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS

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.”