It's said to be the grave of Ed Delahanty, a Hall of Fame baseball player who had a lifetime batting average of .346. He also is the first player who merited a memorial arm band, worn by the Indians.

Baseball did not always come so easy for Ed though. After dominating in tri-state and semi-pro leagues, Delahanty was bought by the Phillies for $2,000 in 1888.

The railway span connecting Buffalo and Fort Erie is a bridge over troubled water. Big Ed Delahanty, the best baseball player of his era, plunged from it 120 years ago. His death remains the ...

"Delahanty was just the first, a forewarning of the setbacks and hazards of celebrityhood," said Jerrold Casway, who wrote a book about Irish slugger Ed Delahanty, below.

Hitting over .400 three separate times, Delahanty finished with a career batting average of .346 on the strength of 2,597 hits in just 1,835 games. He also slugged 1,464 RBI and stole 455 bases.

"Delahanty was just the first, a forewarning of the setbacks and hazards of celebrityhood," said Casway, whose book, "Ed Delahanty in the Emerald Age of Baseball," was recently published by the ...

Ed Delahanty, Billy Hamilton, and Sam Thompson. Or to some, “The Greatest Outfield Ever”. They are all Hall of Famers and have a lot in common. Delahanty began his career with the Phillies in ...

In the darkness Big Ed walked out onto the 3,600 foot long bridge and was standing still at its edge, staring down into the water, when he was accosted by night watchman Sam Kingston, on the lookout ...

That’s the longest streak at the end of a career ever, eclipsing the previous record holder, Ed Delahanty, who ended his career with a 16-game streak. This in turn led to some Twitter talk about the ...

In "Ed Delahanty in the Emerald Age of Baseball" (University of Notre Dame Press) Jerrold Casway presents late 18th and early 19th century pro baseball in all its chaotic glory.

1903 — Washington outfielder Ed Delahanty went over a railroad bridge at Niagara Falls and drowned. The exact circumstances of his death never were determined. 1909 — The Chicago White Sox ...