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Clare Briggs
Clare Briggs is a famous cartoonist who lived from 1875 to 1930. Poems by Wilbur Nesbitt.
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“Tinker to Evers to Chance” is one of those phrases that somehow made it to me in my youth.
Two of them show up here. Awesome.Report
I remember seeing it too, in trivia and baseball lore books
Apparently it was a famous at the time poem, though it seems not quite Casey at the Bat famous.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baseball%27s_Sad_Lexicon
eta – the poem would be written a year after this cartoon was published if I’m reading things right.Report
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.”Report
The original Fake Gamer Girl meme.Report