Since today is the Superbowl, I am taking just a quick break out of respect for another sports biggest day of the year… to fill the space, I thought I would post Baseball’s Sad Lexicon written in 1902 by Franklin Pierce Adams for the New York Evening Mail.  The one stanza poem comes from the point of view of a New York Giants fan who has come to see his team play the Chicago Cubs, and laments Chicago’s double team combination.
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.”
Editor’s Note: A gonfalon is a pennant.