Jim Delahanty
| Jim Delahanty | |
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| Second baseman / third baseman | |
| Born: June 20, 1879 Cleveland , United States 
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| Died on: October 17, 1953 Cleveland, United States
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| Suggested: Right | Threw: Right |
| Debut in Major League Baseball | |
| April 19, 1901 with the Chicago Orphans | |
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| May 8, 1915 at the Brooklyn Tip-Tops | |
| MLB statistics (until end of career) |
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| Batting average | , 283 |
| Home runs | 19th |
| Run Batted In | 489 |
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| Last update: January 12, 2019 | |
James Christopher "Jim" Delahanty (born June 20, 1879 in Cleveland , Ohio , † October 17, 1953 ibid) was an American baseball player in Major League Baseball (MLB) on the position of second baseman . From 1901 to 1915 he played 1,186 games for eight different MLB and Federal League teams. With the Detroit Tigers he took part in the 1909 World Series .
His brothers Ed , Frank , Joe and Tom also played in the MLB.
biography
Delahanty was born to the Irish immigrants James (1842-1919) and Bridget Delahanty (1849-1926, nee Croke). 1898 began his career with the Montgomery Senators in the minor league , but moved to the Allentown Peanuts in late May of the same year, where he played alongside his brothers Joe and Tom . He made his MLB debut on April 19, 1901 in the jersey of the Chicago Orphans for which he could only make 17 games due to a knee injury. After the season he played for the New York Giants and ran seven times for the New Yorkers, before moving back to the minor league that same year and playing for the Little Rock Travelers until 1904. He played his first full season in the MLB in 1904 in the jersey of the Boston Beaneaters . In 1904 and 1905 he made a total of 267 games for the Beaneaters. In the two seasons he hit a batting average of, 272, 261 hits and 115 run batted in (RBI). After some side trips with the Cincinnati Reds (1906), the St. Louis Browns (1907), the Washington Senators (1907-1909), Delahanty landed at the end of the 1909 season with the Detroit Tigers for which he was in the 1909 World Series against the Pittsburgh Pirates ran aground. The Tigers could not prevail, however, and lost the World Series with 3-4 games. That was the only time Delahanty competed in the World Series. 1911 was the strongest attacking year in his MLB career for him with a batting average of, 339 and 94 RBIs. In 1912 Delahanty moved back to the minor league and played with his brother Frank for two years with the Minneapolis Millers, a team of Double-A . With the Millers, he and his brother won the championship in 1912. For the last two years of his professional career, he played for the Brooklyn Tip-Tops in the Federal League .
After his playing career, Delahanty worked for the Cleveland Roads Department. He died after a long illness on October 17, 1951, leaving behind his wife and a daughter.
Web links
- Player information and statistics from MLB or Baseball Reference or Fangraphs or Baseball Reference (Minor League) (English)
- Jim Delahanty in the database of Find a Grave (English)
- Jim Delahanty biography
Individual evidence
- ↑ 1898 Allentown Peanuts. Baseball-Reference.com , accessed January 20, 2019 .
- ^ A b David L. Porter: Biographical Dictionary of American Sports: AF . Greenwood Publishing Group, 2015, ISBN 978-0-313-31174-1 , pp. 372 (English, google.com [accessed January 12, 2019]).
- ^ A b Bill Lee: The Baseball Necrology: The Post-Baseball Lives and Deaths of More Than 7,600 Major League Players and Others . McFarland, 2000, ISBN 978-1-4766-0930-0 , pp. 99 (English, google.de [accessed January 12, 2019]).
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Delahanty, Jim |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Delahanty, James Christopher |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American baseball player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 20, 1879 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cleveland , Ohio |
| DATE OF DEATH | 17th October 1953 |
| Place of death | Cleveland , Ohio |