The album's ironic title refers to Joe Tinker, Johnny Evers, and Frank Chance, who played baseball for the 1910 Chicago Cubs, and who were immortalized in the poem "Baseball's Sad Lexicon."
The album's ironic name refers to Joe Tinker, Johnny Evers, and Frank Chance, players of the 1910 Chicago Cubs, whose story is recounted in the poem "Baseball's Sad Lexicon."