Ed Delahanty in the Emerald Age of Baseball

Ed Delahanty in the Emerald Age of Baseball
Date: 3/20/2004

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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. At a time when some of the best players were jumping contracts and showing up drunk at games, Ed Delahanty, eternal adolescent, was a disaster-in-progress.