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Tinker to Evers to Chance
Tinker to Evers to Chance
A lengendary baseball double-play. The phrase is used as the refrain in the poem "Baseball's Sad Lexicon" by Franklin Piece Adams. It refers to three Chicago Cubs players from the early 20th century: Joe Tinker, Johnny Evers, and Frank Chance. I wish I had been born in an earlier era, so that I could have seen Tinker to Evers to Chance—not to mention Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig and all the famous players of yore.
Common Names:
| Name | Gender | Pronounced | Usage |
| Norma | | ['nɔ:mə] | |
| Xochitl | | - | Native American, Nahuatl, Spanish (Latin American) |
| Gunvor | | - | Swedish, Norwegian, Danish |
| Iudas | | - | Biblical Latin |
| HaydÉE | | - | Spanish, French |
| Keala | | - | Hawaiian |