Joe Tinker

Joe Tinker played for the Chicago Cubs and Cincinnati Reds and the Federal League Chicago Whales from 1902-1916.

A 2-time World Series Champion and Federal League Champion, Tinker is best known for the double-play combination that played for the Cubs "Tinker to Evers To Chance"

This combination was made famous by the poem "Baseball's Sad Lexicon" published in the New York Evening News in 1910 by Franklin Pierce Adams. Presented from the point of view of a New York Giants fan:

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 heavy with nothing but trouble

Tiner to Evers to Chance

Elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame 1946.

The town of Muscotah, Kansas honors it hometown hero with commemorative postmarks on Joe Tinker Day. Tinker was born in Muscotah on July 27, 1880 and died in Muscotah on July 27, 1948