Died: July 2, 1903(1903-07-02) (aged 35) Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada
Batted: Right
Threw: Right
MLB debut
May 22, 1888, for the Philadelphia Quakers
Last MLB appearance
June 25, 1903, for the Washington Senators
MLB statistics
Batting average
.346
Hits
2,596
Home runs
101
Runs batted in
1,464
Stolen bases
455
Teams
Philadelphia Quakers (1888–1889)
Cleveland Infants (1890)
Philadelphia Phillies (1891–1901)
Washington Senators (1902–1903)
Career highlights and awards
NL batting champion (1899)
2× NL home run leader (1893, 1896)
3× NL RBI leader (1893, 1896, 1899)
NL stolen base leader (1898)
Hit 4 home runs in one game on July 13, 1896
Philadelphia Phillies Wall of Fame
Member of the National
Baseball Hall of Fame
Induction
1945
Election method
Old-Timers Committee
Edward James Delahanty (October 30, 1867 – July 2, 1903), nicknamed "Big Ed", was an American professional baseball player, who spent his Major League Baseball (MLB) playing career with the Philadelphia Quakers, Cleveland Infants, Philadelphia Phillies, and Washington Senators. He was renowned as one of the game's early power hitters, and while primarily a left fielder, also spent time as an infielder. Delahanty won two batting titles, batted over .400 three times, and has the fifth-highest career batting average in MLB history. He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1945. Delahanty died as a result of falling into the Niagara River or being swept over Niagara Falls (undetermined), after being removed from a train while intoxicated.
Delahanty's biographer argues that:
Baseball for Irish kids was a shortcut to the American dream and to self-indulgent glory and fortune. By the mid-1880s these young Irish men dominated the sport and popularized a style of play that was termed heady, daring, and spontaneous.... [Delahanty] personified the flamboyant, exciting spectator-favorite, the Casey-at-the-bat, Irish slugger. The handsome masculine athlete who is expected to live as large as he played.[1]
Delahanty's younger brothers, Frank, Jim, Joe, and Tom, also played in the major leagues.[2]
^Jerrold Casway, Ed Delahanty in the Emerald Age of Baseball (2004) p. x
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