Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Baseball's Sad Lexicon

Today's Tale from a Bad Century is about the poem that immortalized the Cubs double play combination of Tinker to Evers to Chance.

You can read it here.


(By the way, the poor schlub who wasn't recognized in the poem was Harry Steinfeldt, the third baseman--the one on the far left. Try rhyming Steinfeldt. Not an easy task)