Out of Left Field

You learn something new everyday. "Out of Left Field" is a common expression. I often use it. I have never even cared to know where it came from but a recent article shed new light. Being a Cubs fan, I can say this is turning out to be a very fun year. Unless things go to crap real quick, the Cubs will have 50+ wins by the All-Star break. I wanted to know if they had ever had this kind of record at this point. That led me to West Side Field. The last stadium in which the Cubs won a World Series. The left field in West Side Park is the left field in "Out of Left Field". There are two similar stories that are associated with this. One is that when the stadium was torn down in the 1920's, the University of Illinois College of Medicine built its Neuropsychiatric Institute where left field was. Therefore, if you say something a bit crazy, you must have come from left field. The other explanation is, and I found two stories on this, is that there was a Cook County psychatric hospital located behind left field. According to a few historians, there were random things yelled from the hospital windows to left field. I want to believe the latter story. It sounds more "Cubs". People still shout random crap from left field. Another interesting note about West Side Park is that is where the poem "Tinkers to Evers to Chance" originated. The killer double-play combo. Franklin Pierce Adams (very presidential name) wrote it in frustration as a New York Giants fan.

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."

What's the answer to my original question? I can't be sure because of the research time required but the last time the Cubs had this type of record by this point was in 1908, in West Side Park. Tinker to Evers to Chance was in full effect. In 2008, that would be Theriot to Derosa to Lee. Sounds good to me.