Downtown Muscotah Traditional Cache
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Down town Muscotah, once the third largest town in the county. At one time it was a "hopping place". Looking at the main street you can tell there was once a lot of activity that went on here. If you have never been to Muscotah, drive around and enjoy your visit.
Muscotah is the home of baseball great Joe Tinker. Joe was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1946, and was famous for the double play combination; Tinker to Evans to Chance. Joe Tinker played for the Chicago Cubs.
Tinker was the starting shortstop for the Chicago Cubs from 1902 to 1912. He was a speedy runner, stealing an average of 28 bases a season and even stealing home twice in one game on July 28, 1910. He also excelled at fielding, often leading the National League in a number of statistical categories (including four times in fielding percentage). During his decade with the Cubs, they went to the World Series four times, winning in 1907 and 1908.
Despite being just an average hitter, Tinker had a good amount of success against fellow Hall of Famer Christy Mathewson. His leadoff triple off of Mathewson in the third inning of the 1908 National League playoff game - a replay of the Merkle game - ignited a four run rally that helped Chicago to clinch the pennant.
Joe Tinker baseball card, 1912
Tinker is perhaps best known for the "Tinker to Evers to Chance" double play combination in the poem "Baseball's Sad Lexicon," written by the New York Evening Mail newspaper columnist Franklin Pierce Adams in July 1910.[2] Yet several years earlier, on September 14, 1905, Tinker and Evers had engaged in a fistfight on the field because Evers had taken a cab and left his teammates behind in the hotel lobby. Tinker and Evers did not speak to one another again for 33 years, until they were asked to participate in the radio broadcast of the 1938 World Series (Cubs versus Yankees), where they were tearfully reunited.[3]
Tinker's incessant salary demands got him traded to the Cincinnati Reds in 1912. After a year playing and managing the Reds, Tinker jumped to the Federal League. He managed the Chicago Whales for two years and won the pennant in 1915, but the league folded after the season. He rejoined the Cubs briefly in 1916.
The big baseball in Muscotah was up until a couple years ago, the water tower for the town.
DO NOT SPEED IN THIS TOWN! You are not out of the 30 MPH until you see the 55 MPH again. This is one area they enforce .
You are looking for a large pill bottle with notebook and pen, along with a few small items. Watch your step as you approach the cache there is a hole.
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