Tinker to Evers to Chance

Meanings

Proper Noun

• A famous baseball infield double-play combination.

Noun

• A task accomplished quickly by well-executed teamwork; those involved in the teamwork.

Origin

• A reference to a double play completed by Chicago Cubs shortstop Joe Tinker, second baseman Johnny Evers, and first baseman Frank Chance, famously eulogized in a poem
• {{cite-journal
• |date=1910-07-12
• |first=Franklin Pierce
• |last=Adams
• |authorlink=Franklin Pierce Adams
• |title=Baseball's Sad Lexicon
• |newspaper=New York Evening Mail
• |passage=These are the saddest of possible words:
  “Tinker to Evers to Chance.”
  Trio of bear cubs, and fleeter than birds,
  Tinker and Evers and Chance.
  Ruthlessly pricking our gonfalon bubble,
  Making a Giant hit into a double —
  Words that are heavy with nothing but trouble:
  “Tinker to Evers to Chance.”
• .