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Title: Ed Delahanty in the Emerald Age of Baseball by Jerrold Casway ISBN: 0-268-02285-2 Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 2004 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (2 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Scholarly ode to workmanlike 19th-century baseball player
Comment: As the author of a later 2004 release, Cap Anson 2: The Theatrical and Kingly Mike Kelly: U.S. Team Sport's First Media Sensation and Baseball's Original Casey at the Bat, I was excited to buy a copy of Jerrold Casway's Ed Delahanty in the Emerald Age of Baseball. Kelly and Delahanty are the first 19th-century Hall of Famers of Irish descent to be the subject of full-length books. Each of ours seeks to be the standard biography of our subjects, and Casway didn't have as much of a head start (Kelly was treated in an 1888 ghostwritten autobiography, the first book about a professional baseball player, and in Marty Appel's 1996 Slide, Kelly, Slide).
In the 1880s, Kelly was to baseball, in a more animated way, what Delahanty was, in a more workmanlike way, in the 1890s. Casway likes social history, and he relates Delahanty's Irishness to the general status of the Irish in 19th-century America (he had written a 1999 essay in the Encyclopedia of the Irish in America entitled "Irish American Factor and the Emerald Age of Baseball"). To make Delahanty's story whole, he has unearthed personable information about Delahanty and his family, and his "Irish Kid from Cleveland" chapter is arguably the most interesting chapter of the book.
I find Casway's book most similar to Reed Browning's about Cy Young, as both were fairly stoic figures or at least covered without great detail to outside interests. A case in point is that Delahanty adored the theater, and even founded a social group featuring athletes, actors and businessmen. But reporting on that great love of his was apparently scant as it is limited to a few pages of the book. Kelly loved the theater as much as Delahanty and, in part because of Kelly's own stage career which included recitations of "Casey at the Bat," a lot more was said about his relationships with theatrical personalities and other players who performed on stage (who thus had a sense of the theatrical), especially Cap Anson and Arlie Latham.
Delahanty's arguably greatest significance was as a power hitter, when leading the league in doubles (which Delahanty did five times) was to batting what leading the league in home runs is today. Casway adequately reflects that aspect of his play while wrapping his career broadly around social history themes. Arguably Delahanty's main appeal today is his mysterious death, and the author is able to write definitively on the subject especially because of a prior book on the subject: Mike Sowell's July 2, 1903.
Rating: 5
Summary: Read this book!
Comment: The book is not only beautiful, but the content is interestingly captivating. It appeals to baseball fans, as well as a general audience.
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Title: The Player: Christy Mathewson, Baseball, and the American Century by Philip M. Seib ISBN: 1568582684 Publisher: Four Walls Eight Windows Pub. Date: 10 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: Rothstein: The Life, Times, and Murder of the Criminal Genius Who Fixed the 1919 World Series by David Pietrusza ISBN: 0786712503 Publisher: Carroll & Graf Publishers Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $27.00 |
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Title: Baseball's Greatest Season, 1924 by Reed Browning ISBN: 1558494065 Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: September Swoon: Richie Allen, the '64 Phillies, and Racial Integration by William C. Kashatus, Gerald Early ISBN: 0271023333 Publisher: Keystone Books Pub. Date: 01 February, 2004 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: The Black Prince of Baseball: Hal Chase and the Mythology of Baseball by Donald Dewey, Nicholas Acocella ISBN: 1894963296 Publisher: Sportclassic Books Pub. Date: June, 2004 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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