Baseball’s Sad Lexicon

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.”