Ed delahanty personal life

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. In , Delahanty was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame. Delahanty died as a result of falling into the Niagara River or being swept over Niagara Falls undetermined , after being removed from a train for being drunk and disorderly.

Delahanty's younger brothers, Frank , Jim , Joe , and Tom , also played in the major leagues. A Cleveland, Ohio , native, Delahanty was an outfielder and powerful right-handed batter in the s. Crazy Schmit , who pitched for the Giants and Orioles, said of him, "When you pitch to [Ed] Delahanty, you just want to shut your eyes, say a prayer and chuck the ball.

The Lord only knows what'll happen after that. His baseball career started with the semipro Cleveland Shamrocks. The Phillies obtained Delahanty as a replacement for Charlie Ferguson. Ferguson was a pitcher who had converted to second base for his final season, but he died early in from typhoid fever. Delahanty was brought in to fill in for him at second base.

Despite his continued on-field success, however,

The next year, in 56 games, he raised his average to. In , he jumped to the Players' League PL , but returned to the Phillies the next year when that league folded. During one game that season, St. Louis infielder George Pinkney charged toward home plate, expecting Delahanty to bunt; Delahanty swung and hit a ball that "appeared to have been shot from a cannon", breaking Pinkney's ankle.

The ball hit a pole and landed right in the "doghouse", a little-known feature of the park that was used to store numbers for the manually run scoreboard.