One of the most famous poems ever written about baseball is this eight-line bit about the infield trio of Joe Tinker, Johnny Evers, and Frank Chance, who started for the Chicago Cubs during their glory days of the 1900s. It was initially published in the New York Evening Mail under the title “That Double Play Again” on July 12, 1910, then republished in the Chicago Daily Tribune as “Gotham’s Woe” three days later. On July 18 of that year, the Evening Mail ran it again under the title “Baseball’s Sad Lexicon,” the name which has stuck to the poem.