Tinker-Evers-Chance

[nineunder71]

Amazing cards guys, well done!!

I never show off this ugly Chance, but it is one of my favs

Cheers All

[fkm_bky]

Great cards guys! Keep em coming! I could contribute, but what I own has been shared multiple times in far better and rarer condition

Bill

[Casey2296]

Here's a couple that haven't been posted yet, there was no Tinker in the E94 unfortunately so his portrait will have to stand in.
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[tedzan]

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My favorite guy of this famous trio is Frank Chance....here is a small sampling of my cards.





SOVEREIGN 150..........................AMERICAN BEAUTY 460






Last but not least is this sharp looking 1910 COUPON card....a card that I have had for many years, that now belongs in Ryan's collection.

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TED Z

T206 Reference
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The Colgan Chips Lexicon

[FrankWakefield]

Michael, I think you're correct. You didn't misread what I had, what I put up wasn't correct. I now share that concept of a "gonfalon bubble" as what Cubs fans experience every spring until midseason (excepting that 2016 anomaly). Apologies. And thanks for the updating. Maybe what I read was trying to tell me that the NYT hadn't used the word "gonfalon" in crossword, not as a puzzle word, nor a clue word. Or at least not prior to that article being written. Molenick, I wish I still had a remaining free use of that NYT article data base.

Guys, that's an admirable assemblage of cards. There's nothing like getting two of the trio in a set to get a fellow to focus on the missing third one.

Now, if only folks will listen to Dr. Ritter's The Glory of Their Times on CD's, and then they'll settle on the reality of that intelligent second baseman's name being EEE-vers, and not something else.

Thank You, Guys

[molenick]

I think I found the link to the article https://archive.nytimes.com/wordplay...sultPosition=3

I have subscription through work, but as I recall, you can access up to 10 articles a month for free (unless they have changed the policy).

At any rate, you kind of remembered correctly...it wasn't that the word gonfalon had not appeared in the puzzle at the time the poem was written...it's that the word is so obscure it has never appeared (at least up until 4/20/2009).

Below is part of the article:

I’m often asked, “Jim, how can I get my own name in a N.Y.T. crossword puzzle?” The answer is simple. First, do something remarkable. Second, be born with a name with a convenient combination of letters including lots of vowels. I should add one more option: have someone write a famously memorable poem about you. I’m sure Messrs. Tinker, Evers and Chance were a great COMBO but it’s the rhyme that makes them memorable a century later. That poem, called “Baseball’s Sad Lexicon,” is by the Algonquin Round Table regular Franklin Pierce Adams. First published in 1910, it’s still stuck in our collective unconsciousness despite one now-confusing metaphor.

What bubble is getting pricked, and ruthlessly at that? The word gonfalon has never appeared in a clue or as an answer in a Times crossword. It means a flag like you see hanging from crossbars in swashbuckling films, but in this case it’s a poetic reference to a baseball pennant.

[Rhotchkiss]

Some awesome F-ing cards on this thread. Too many to mention but particularly love the Rose Co’s

Here is rare back trio