Gratification Delayed (the third annual Cheese Lament)

Gratification Delayed (the third annual Cheese Lament)

Back in 1910 Franklin Pierce Adams published a now-famous poem about baseball that began with the line, “These are the saddest of possible words, Tinker to Evers to Chance.” His poem was inspired by a tragic event: the Cubs had used this new-fangled “double play” to...