During his time on the Evening Mail, Adams wrote what remains his best known work, the poem "Baseball's Sad Lexicon", a tribute to the Chicago Cubs double play combination of "Tinker to Evers to Chance".
Während der Zeit bei der Evening Mail schrieb Adams seinen bekanntesten Roman „Baseball's Sad Lexicon“, eine Hommage an die Double Play-Kombination „Tinker zu Evers zu Chance“ der Chicago Cubs.