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 golden gonfalon bubble,
Making a Giant hit into a double-
Words that are heavy with nothing but trouble:
Tinker to Evers to Chance.