I Think We Need an Ed Delahanty Appreciation Post

[z28jd]

The Philadelphia Phillies and Philadelphia media (as well as baseball media in general) ran with this from last night:

Kyle Schwarber joins Mike Schmidt as the second player in franchise history with 5 hits and 3 home runs in the same game. Schmidt did so in his four HR game, April 17, 1976 at CHI.

One of the greatest Phillies players ever in his greatest game had five hits and four homers. Ed Delahanty did that on July 13, 1896. He had the second four-homer game in MLB history, as well as a single.

I've heard some say they consider him to be the best hitter of the 19th century, so show 'em if you got 'em. Don't let the greats of the game be forgotten.

[drumback]

"He was quick and impulsive, easily aroused, yet quick to forgive. He was generous to a fault, and as ingenuous as a child, and, according to his wife, a good husband and fond father. His death will be mourned by thousands and thousands of lovers of baseball the world over who recognized in him the greatest batsman of the age."

Washington Times, July 1903.

[sb1]

Both versions of his W600 cabinet 1902 and the 1903

[Yoda]

I only have a PC of Niagara Falls.

[paul]

Scott, those are beauties. Do you really need two that have only slight variations?

[oldjudge]

Early Big Ed

[sb1]

Originally Posted by paul

Scott, those are beauties. Do you really need two that have only slight variations?

Yes!

[benchod]

Originally Posted by sb1

Both versions of his W600 cabinet 1902 and the 1903

Amazing 1903, Scott
Is that from the upstate New York find and Connelly auctions?

Amazing Big Ed collection, Jay
Love the cabinets