Merriam-Webster Online recently ran this item about Franklin P. Adams’ poetic homage to the double play combination of Tinker to Evers to Chance in Baseball’s Sad Lexicon.
Text and an audio version are provided. (So is it pronounced Eh-vers or Ee-vers?).
Books on the Cubs stars include:
- Tinker, Evers, and Chance: A Triple Biography, by Gil Bogen (McFarland)
- Touching Second, by Joe Tinker (McFarland)
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