Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, Date: 2006. Paperback edition, presumed first printing. Trade paperback. Very good. xii, 369, [3] pages. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Name Index. Subject Index. Inscribed by author on half-title page. Frontis. Cover has slight wear and soiling. The author is a professor of history. He specialized in nineteenth-century baseball. Edward James Delahanty (October 30, 1867 - July 2, 1903), nicknamed "Big Ed", was a Major League Baseball player from 1888 to 1903 for the Philadelphia Phillies, Cleveland Infants and Washington Senators. He was known as one of the game's early power hitters, and while primarily a left fielder during his career, he also played as an infielder. Delahanty won a batting title, batted over .400 three times, and has the fifth-highest batting average in MLB history. He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1945. He died falling into Niagara Falls or the Niagara River after being kicked off of a train while intoxicated. His 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. Jerrold Casway's fascinating biography of legendary baseball player Ed ...

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