World's Largest Baseball
Muscotah, Kansas was the birthplace of Joe Tinker
in July 27, 1880. Tinker was a Chicago Cub and part of the early 1900s
double play combo of "Tinker to Evers to Chance," which was immortalized
in the poem, Baseball's Sad Lexicon.
The people of Muscotah, with the support of the Kansas
Sampler Foundation, are in the middle of building a baseball museum, which
will go inside their recently constructed World's
Largest Baseball. The 20' diameter ball was created from an old water
tank and is far larger than the 10' diameter previous World's largest baseball,
which is in Sault Ste Marie, Ontario and was constructed on April 7, 2004.
There may someday be a museum in the baseball.
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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." |
Mini-infield and outfield fence - In time, silhouettes of Tinker to
Evers to Chance will be added.
Entrance to the future baseball museum inside the World's Largest Baseball
"Tinker to Evers to Chance" mural painted on the concession stand at
Joe Tinker Field
Painted by Erika Nelson and Matthew Farley
Vintage baseball game being played at Joe Tinker Field on Joe Tinker
Day - July 27, 2013. More photos from Joe
Tinker Day.
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