Tinker-Evers-Chance

[BioCRN]

The mark on the Tinker is a small/faded pen mark of a few letters on the back.

[3-2-count]

Tinker -



To Evers -



To Chance -

[Peter_Spaeth]

Not mine but kinda mandatory in this thread.

[stutor]

Amazing cards !!!! That uzit and red hindu 😳

[chadeast]

[bgar3]

The poem first appeared in a newspaper under a different title, but the first book appearance was in In Other Words, 1912 by Franklin P Adams. I think the newspaper printing was 1910. Adams’ poetry books contain quite a few baseball themed poems.

[Yoda]

Can someone please enlighten me as to what a "gonfalon bubble'











Can someone please enlighten me as to what a "gonfalon bubble," is?














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[perezfan]

Originally Posted by Yoda

Can someone please enlighten me as to what a "gonfalon bubble," is?
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A gonfalon is a pennant. "Pricking one's gonfalon bubble" simply means bursting one's bubble in regard to their hopes of winning the pennant.

In this case, the poem's author (Franklin P. Adams) was a Giants fan. While hoping for a Giant's pennant berth, Tinker/Evers/Chance would ruthlessly burst his bubble by turning a Giant hit into a "double" (short for a double-play).

[Kawika]

[commishbob]

Not trimmed despite how my scanner cropped them several years ago for my blog.

And the oft forgotten 4th member of that infield (a card I bought here on N54)

[rdwyer]

I picked this up a while back.