Player Profile:
Harry Steinfeldt

Why Steinfeldt was significant: Steinfeldt is best known as the answer to a trivia question: Who was the "other" infielder in the Cubs' famous Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance infield of the early 1900s? Steinfeldt was a fine player in his own right, and probably contributed as much to the Cubs' success in the "Nineteen-Aughts" as any of his more famous mates save Chance. Playing in the dead ball era, he was a fine hitter, leading the NL in hits and RBI in 1906 (the year the Cubs set a record for wins in a season), and one of the top fielding third basement of his era. He played in four World Series for the Cubs during the franchise's most dominant era, and was a key contributor to that success. While he missed out on the legendary status achieved by the rest of the Cubs' infield, he certainly is worth remembering as an outstanding player in his own right.

Harry Steinfeldt, 1910 baseball card

The infield (of which Steinfeldt was the silent partner) was immortalized by New York journalist Franklin P. Adams in his 1910 poem, Baseball's Sad Lexicon:

These are the saddest of possible words,
     Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance.
Trio of Bear Cubs fleeter than birds,
     Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance.
Ruthlessly pricking our gonfalon bubble,
Making a Giant hit into a double,
Words that are weighty with nothing but trouble,
     Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance. 

It was pretty bad poetry, but it captured the imagination of the baseball public, and earned an enduring place in baseball lore for its principles (shortstop Joe Tinker, second baseman Johnny Evers, and first baseman Frank Chance).