Franklin P. Adams was a columnist for the New York
Globe. On July 10, 1908, the composition room called to tell him that his column was eight lines short. Adams, on his way to a Giant-Cub matchup at the Polo Grounds, quickly scrawled out eight lines entitled "Baseball's Sad Lexicon":
"These
are the saddest of possible words,
Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance.
Trio of bear cubs
and fleeter than birds,
Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance.
Ruthlessly pricking our gonfalon
bubble,
Making a Giant hit into a double,
Words that are weighty with nothing but
trouble.
Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance."
Adams was later an ace panelist on the radio
show "Information Please."
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