Jerrold Casway’s fascinating biography of legendary baseball
player Ed Delahanty (1867–1903) offers a compelling examination
of the first “King of Swatsville’s” life and career,
including the enigma surrounding his tragic and untimely death.
Through Delahanty’s story, Casway traces the evolving character
of major league baseball and its effect on the lives and ambitions
of its athletes. Delahanty’s career spanned the last decades of
the nineteenth century during a time when the sons of post-famine
Irish refugees dominated the sport and changed the playing style of
America’s national pastime. In this “Emerald Age” of
baseball, Irish-American players comprised 30–50 percent of all
players, managers, and team captains. Baseball for Delahanty and
other young Irishmen was a ticket out of poverty and into a life of
fame and fortune. The allure and promise of celebrity and wealth,
however, were disastrous for Delahanty. He found himself enmeshed
in desperate contract dealings and a gambling addiction that drove
him to alcohol abuse. The owner of the fourth highest lifetime
batting average, Delahanty mysteriously disappeared and was found
at the bottom of Niagara’s Horseshoe Falls. This rich biography,
which relies on previously unavailable family papers and court
transcripts, as well as the colorful sports reporting of the
period, will appeal to anyone interested in baseball, sports, or
Irish history.
General
| Imprint: |
University of Notre Dame Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
February 2006 |
| Firstpublished: |
2004 |
| Authors: |
Jerrold Casway
|
| Dimensions: |
234 x 156 x 23mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback
|
| Pages: |
400 |
| Edition: |
New edition |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-268-02291-4 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Sport & Leisure >
Sports & outdoor recreation >
Ball games >
Baseball
|
| LSN: |
0-268-02291-7 |
| Barcode: |
9780268022914 |
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