Our Delusional Lexicon

In 1910, a distraught sportswriter covering the New York Giants famously penned what became known as “Baseball’s Sad Lexicon.” When the Giants’ pennant hopes that year were finally vanquished with a double-play performed by the Cubs’ famed infield trio, Franklin Pierce Adams lamented, These are the saddest of possible words: “Tinker to Evers to Chance.” […]