The Canaries visited the Haymakers tonight in the final game of the regular season. When Ed Delahanty, the Birds' left fielder, stepped to the plate against Cy Young with one out and nobody on in the top of the first, I had little inkling that history was about to be made. Delahanty promptly crushed Young's offering into the left-fielder bleachers for his league-leading fourth homer of the season. That blast was also the twelfth home run of his career, surpassing teammate George Davis's eleven career homers. The crown has passed from Mike "King" Kelly to Davis to Delahanty, and I wonder how long Delahanty will hold it before the next guy -- Cap Anson? -- takes it.
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