1956-63 Artvue Hall of Fame Plaque Postcards JOE TINKER Chicago Cubs HOF

SUBJECT: Joe Tinker

APPROXIMATE SIZE: 3-1/2"x5-1/4"

ISSUER: Artvue

ORIGINAL or REPRODUCTION: Original vintage item produced in the time period shown

COMMENTS / CONDITION: 1956-63 - Joe Tinker baseball card VG or better condition as shown. See scans of actual card offered for condition and further details.

BIO: Joseph Bert Tinker was born in Muscotah, KS and died in 1948 in Orlando, FL. He went to college at University of Tennessee. He played major league baseball from 1902 to 1916 as shortstop for the Chicago Orphans, Chicago Cubs, Cincinnati Reds and the Chicago Chi-Feds, appeared in the 1906, 1907, 1908 and 1910 World Series, and was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1946. Tinker also managed the 1913 Cincinnati Reds, the 1914-15 Chicago Chi-Feds, and the 1916 Chicago Cubs. Tinker is perhaps best known as the shortstop in the "Tinker to Evers to Chance" double play combination immortalized in the poem "Baseball's Sad Lexicon" by New York newspaper columnist Franklin Pierce Adams. Yet on September 14, 1905, he and Evers ended up in a fistfight on the field because Evers took a cab and left his teammates behind in the hotel lobby. They didn't speak to one another for 33 years until they were both asked to help broadcast the 1938 World Series (Cubs versus Yankees) and tearfully reunited.

SKU: CL02402

Item: CL02402