Joe Tinker, Johnny Evers and Frank Chance formed the defensive core of the most formidable team in big league baseball, leading the Chicago Cubs to four National League pennants and two World Series championships from 1906 to 1910. In his book “Tinker to Evers to Chance,” author David Rapp takes a rare look at one of baseball’s first dynasties in action.
Speaker Biography: Author David Rapp spent more than 20 years at Congressional Quarterly serving as editor and senior vice president. A former board member of the National Press Foundation, Rapp has worked as a newspaper beat reporter in Memphis, Cincinnati and Pittsburgh.
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Post time: Jul-14-2019