Talk:Ed Delahanty

This is fascinating to me. Ed D is the ghost mystery that is driving me to explore the Great Lakes Baseball trail along Lake Erie, Huron, Ontario. I'll write back if I run into him. Or slide into him.

LB

Entry Has Wrong Bridge

The bridge Ed Delahanty fell/jumped/was pushed off was not at Niagara Falls, but at what is now Fort Erie, Ontario (across the Niagara River from Buffalo, New York).

From the New York Times obituary (http://www.baseball-almanac.com/deaths/ed_delahanty_obituary.shtml):

"In the sleeper on the Michigan Central train on the way down from Detroit, Delehanty had five drinks of whiskey says Conductor Cole, and became so obstreperous that he had to put him off the train at Bridgeburg at the Canadian end of the bridge."

Bridgeburg was later amalgamated with Fort Erie to form the town of Fort Erie. The International Railway bridge, built in 1873, is still there.

Entry Changed

I edited this entry to correct the location of the bridge.

Alan Stewart