This is perhaps the second most famous baseball poem of all time. If not, it contains one of the most famous lines: Tinker to Evers to Chance. Enjoy Franklin Pierce Adams’ work here, and try to remember that there was a time when the words Chicago and Cubs did not add up to inevitable failure
- 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.”
*Gonfalon, wikipedia points out, means pennant.