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.

"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 ...

Baseball Hall of Fame members Ed Delahanty, Billy Hamilton and Sam Thompson were the Phillies’ regular outfielders from 1891-95. Delahanty batted .405, Hamilton .403 and Thompson .415 in 1894.

Baseball Hall of Fame members Ed Delahanty, Billy Hamilton and Sam Thompson were the Phillies' regular outfielders from 1891-95. Delahanty batted .405, Hamilton .403 and Thompson .415 in 1894.

Baseball Hall of Fame members Ed Delahanty, Billy Hamilton and Sam Thompson were the Phillies' regular outfielders from 1891-95. Delahanty batted .405, Hamilton .403 and Thompson .415 in 1894.

Hall of Famers Ed Delahanty, Billy Hamilton and Sam Thompson were the Phillies’ regular outfielders from 1891-95.

Baseball Hall of Fame members Ed Delahanty, Billy Hamilton and Sam Thompson were the Phillies' regular outfielders from 1891-95. Delahanty batted .405, Hamilton .403 and Thompson .415 in 1894.