Tinker to Evers to Chance is a compilation album

Compilation album

A compilation album is an album featuring tracks from one or more performers, often culled from a variety of sources The tracks are usually collected according to a common characteristic, such as popularity, genre, source or subject matter...

 of songs by Game Theory

Game Theory (band)

Game Theory was an American rock band from 1981 to 1989. The group's lead singer, Scott Miller, went on to front the band The Loud Family. Game Theory is best known for its double LP Lolita Nation. The band favored hyper-literary references, a la Jean-Luc Godard, including the evident...

, released in 1990. The liner notes

Liner notes

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 describe the included tracks as songs which "reached national obscurity, as opposed to local obscurity." Band leader Scott Miller

Scott Miller (Californian musician)

Scott Miller was formerly a member of the 1980s power pop group Game Theory and lead singer of the group The Loud Family. Both bands were based in the San Francisco Bay Area...

 went on to form The Loud Family

The Loud Family (band)

The Loud Family is an American band based in San Francisco that began in 1991, went on hiatus in 2000 and returned in 2006. The band is named after the real-life Loud family, stars of the 1973 TV show An American Family, the first reality TV show...

.

The album's title refers to the poem "Baseball's Sad Lexicon

Tinker to Evers to Chance

"Baseball's Sad Lexicon," also known as "Tinker to Evers to Chance" after its refrain, is a 1910 baseball poem by Franklin Pierce Adams. The poem is presented as a single, rueful stanza from the point of view of a New York Giants fan seeing the talented Chicago Cubs infield of shortstop Joe Tinker,...

", though it also suggests the band's penchant for tinkering and allowing seemingly random elements into their work .

Track listing

1. "Beach State Rocking" – 2:56
2. "Bad Year at U.C.L.A." – 2:58
3. "Sleeping Through Heaven" – 4:06
4. "Something to Show" – 2:39
5. "Penny, Things Won't" – 5:18
6. "Metal and Glass Exact" – 3:37
7. "Shark Pretty" – 4:00
8. "Nine Lives to Rigel Five" – 2:49
9. "The Red Baron" – 3:42
10. "24" – 2:49
11. "Curse of the Frontier Land" – 3:33
12. "I Turned Her Away" - 3:00
13. "Regenisraen" - 3:29
14. "Erica's Word" - 3:56
15. "Crash Into June" - 2:58
16. "Like a Girl Jesus" - 2:40
17. "We Love You, Carol and Alison" - 3:26
18. "The Real Sheila" - 3:35
19. "Together Now, Very Minor" - 3:32
20. "Room For One More, Honey" - 3:02
21. "Leilani" - 3:02
22. "Throwing the Election" - 4:11

Personnel

• Jozef Becker - Drums, Knee Slaps
• Nancy Becker - Keyboards, Vocals, Vocals (bckgr)
• Guillaume Gassuan - Bass
• Dave Gill - Drums, Engineer
• Fred Juhos - Bass
• Scott Miller
  Scott Miller (Californian musician)
  Scott Miller was formerly a member of the 1980s power pop group Game Theory and lead singer of the group The Loud Family. Both bands were based in the San Francisco Bay Area...
  
   - vocals and guitar
• Michael Quercio
  Michael Quercio
  Michael Quercio was the founder, bassist and lead singer of The Three O'Clock. He is also notable for being the apparent source of the genre name Paisley Underground, originally a joke. The Three O'Clock were among the most successful artists of the neo-psychedelic movement of the 1980s...
  
   - Bass, Vocals, Vocals (bckgr), Producer, Reverb
• Gil Ray - Guitar, Drums
• Donnette Thayer
  Donnette Thayer
  Donnette Thayer is a vocalist and guitarist most active in the 1980s and early 1990s underground rock scenes. Thayer has been described as "the enchantress" , "a suave successor to California flower-pop" , and "Gaea personified"...
  
   - Vocals, Guitar Arrangements
• Suzi Ziegler - Vocals