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"Tinker to Evers to Chance!"
URL: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/bbhtml/bb1.html

Description:
Small presentation about "Chicago Cubs infielders Joe Tinker, Johnny Evers, and Frank Chance [who] formed the most memorable double-play combination in the history of baseball." Includes baseball card images for all three, and a short poem about the three baseball players ("Baseball's Sad Lexicon"), written in 1910 by a New York newspaper columnist. Portion of a larger exhibit from the American Memory Project at the Library of Congress.

LII Topics: Baseball, History, Major Leagues, People

Publisher:
The Library of Congress

Extra Keywords
gonfalon trivia Franklin Pierce Adams

Library of Congress Subject Headings:
Baseball
Baseball -- History
Baseball cards
Baseball players

LII Database Information:
Record 20919 created by Jennifer English on 03/14/2006
Last modification on 03/15/2006
Published: 03/16/2006  
Funding agency: California State Library
LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/20919

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