Tinker 2 Evers 2 Chance Multi-Cache
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Baseball's Sad Lexicon
by Franklin Pierce Adams
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."
In the first decade of the 1900s there were two teams that dominated the National League, the Chicago Cubs and the New York Giants. The Cubs won the National League "gonfalon" (pennant) four years in a row from 1906-1910 and they won the World Series twice during that time. One of the main reasons for their success was the double play combination of shortstop Joe Tinker, second baseman Johnny Evers and first baseman Frank Chance. The trio were mainstays in the Cubs lineup from 1902-1912. They turned many double plays during this time and led a newspaper columnist named Franklin Pierce Adams who worked for the New York Evening Mail to write the poem in 1910. Mr. Adams was Giants fan who had watched many rallies killed by the team of "Tinker to Evers to Chance."
Though they were famously immortalized with the poem and elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1946, (in part due to the poem), the three players were almost as famously known for their dislike of each other. On September 14, 1905, Evers took a cab to the ballpark and left the rest of the team at the hotel. This enraged Tinker and the two got into a fistfight on the field that day. Though the remained teammates and turned many double plays after this, they are rumored to have not said a word to each other again, until they were tricked into appearing on the radio broadcast of the 1938 World Series, 33 years later!
Though he only spent the first two years of his life here, Muscotah, Kansas, was the birthplace of Joe Tinker and it is now the home of the world's largest baseball. This town of less than 200 people has worked hard in recent years to acknowledge its famous son. They have converted a retired water town into a replica baseball and built a small park with several tributes to Tinker. The project is still a work in progress. This geocache will take you to a few of those locations. You will need to gather some information, answer a few questions and then go find the cache.
The cache is located at N 39 33.ABC W 095 31.DEF
Checksum for the last three digits of the north coordinates is 18
Checksum for the last three digits if the west coordinates is 20
Stage One: N 39 33.077 W 095 31.299
You will gather the information needed for "A" and "B" at this stage.
A: at the back of the mini baseball field is a fence with some plants in front of it, each plant has a marker that names a sponsor, Total number of markers MINUS eight=A
B: find the marker that has two words on it and says "PROUD ________", Total number of letters in that second word=B
Stages Two and Three are a short drive away from Stage One.
Stage Two: N 39 33.400 W 095 31.314
There is a small shelter with a mural painted on it at this stage, you will gather the information needed for "C" and "D" here.
C: the mural on the back (north) side of the shelter has a year listed, the second digit of the year=C
D: there is a small mural where you would walk inside the shelter on the east side that contains information on who painted the murals and there is a year listed on this mural, the last digit of the year=D
Stage Three: N 39 33.358 W 095 31.304
There is a rock sign with a brass plaque on it at this location and you will gather the information needed for "E" and "F" at this stage.
There are ten lines of information given on the brass plaque.
E: the last digit of the row of numbers on the second line of the brass plaque
F: counting from the top, what is the number of the line that contains the words "DOUBLE PLAY COMBINATION"
The cache is short walk away.
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