Now that the three great Cub infielders (plus Harry Steinfeldt) are off the board...I think it's appropriate for:

These are the saddest of possible words: Tinker to Evers to Chance
Trio of bear cubs, fleeter than birds. Tinker to Evers to Chance.
Ruthlessly pricking our gonfalon bubble,
Making a Giant hit into a double
Words that are weighty with nothing but trouble: Tinker to Evers to Chance.


Growing up I always thought it was pronounced Eh-vers...rhyming with Never. Turns out its EE-vers. Rhyming with Beavers. My brain still doesn't like it. EE-vers sounds like a character in a Dickens novel, not a baseball player.

I never knew that. Eeevers ? Nope, it's gotta be Tinker to Evvers to Chance. Sometimes poetry has to win out.

This guy hears it our way:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6YASsYgRLQ

The Ken Burns documentary instead had it as EEvers:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPDhWFLIIQU

But Vin Scully is on our side !!:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oqqu6ZD41BA

P - Red Donahue

P Jake Weimer (even starting in 1903 - happily surprised he's still available)
1B Joe Kelley

OF - Danny Green

Not sure i can afford what it will take to sign him.....Danny Murphy 2B

High Risk Pick but at least I wont have to burn a lot of contract points keeping him. John McGraw 3B

Nixey Callahan, P

FRED TENNEY - 1B

1:00 pick: ?Tully Sparks, P