Franklin P. Adams

Here you will find the Poem Baseball's Sad Lexicon of poet Franklin P. Adams

Baseball's Sad Lexicon

These are the saddest of possible words: 
Tinker to Evers to Chance. 
Trio of Bear-cubs, 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.