Dave was a professional baseball player from 1908-1924, breaking into the Majors with the Cleveland Naps of the American League in September, 1910, and also playing for them in 1911. He spent many years in the high minor leagues with clubs such as the New Orleans Pelicans, Nashville Volunteers, and Atlanta Crackers of the Southern Association; the Toledo Mud Hens and the Louisville Colonels of the American Association, the Toronto Maple leafs of the International League; and the Dallas Submarines, Shreveport Gassers, and Galveston Pirates of the Texas League. He led the Minnesota-Wisconsin League in batting in 1910 with a .365 average and 92 runs scored, and led the Southern League in stolen bases with 54 in 1914. He played center field and occasionally first base. He broke into the Majors with Cleveland the same week "Shoeless Joe" Jackson was brought up, and they played next to each other in the outfield. He was a Major League teammate of Hall-of-Famers Cy Young and Napoleon "Nap" Lajoie.
Dave was baptized David Cornelius Callahan, but a family idiosyncrasy was that all the boys used "Joseph" as their middle names. His parents, John Cahalane and Hanora Breen, were Irish immigrants who changed the family name to Callahan in 1882, six years before Dave was born. After high school, he worked as a machinist before signing with the Kewanee (IL) Boilermakers in 1908. He worked in the off-season as a salesman (he continued in sales after leaving baseball in 1924).
David married Caroline S. Kohrt in 1927 in Ottawa, Illinois. She was a longtime teacher in the Ottawa school system. They divorced in 1943, but stayed friends.
Dave was admitted to the LaSalle County Nursing Home at the age of 73 in 1961, where he died eight years later. He was buried next to his Parents in Mt. Calvary Cemetery in his boyhood home town of Seneca, Illinois.
Dave was baptized David Cornelius Callahan, but a family idiosyncrasy was that all the boys used "Joseph" as their middle names. His parents, John Cahalane and Hanora Breen, were Irish immigrants who changed the family name to Callahan in 1882, six years before Dave was born. After high school, he worked as a machinist before signing with the Kewanee (IL) Boilermakers in 1908. He worked in the off-season as a salesman (he continued in sales after leaving baseball in 1924).
David married Caroline S. Kohrt in 1927 in Ottawa, Illinois. She was a longtime teacher in the Ottawa school system. They divorced in 1943, but stayed friends.
Dave was admitted to the LaSalle County Nursing Home at the age of 73 in 1961, where he died eight years later. He was buried next to his Parents in Mt. Calvary Cemetery in his boyhood home town of Seneca, Illinois.
Dave was a professional baseball player from 1908-1924, breaking into the Majors with the Cleveland Naps of the American League in September, 1910, and also playing for them in 1911. He spent many years in the high minor leagues with clubs such as the New Orleans Pelicans, Nashville Volunteers, and Atlanta Crackers of the Southern Association; the Toledo Mud Hens and the Louisville Colonels of the American Association, the Toronto Maple leafs of the International League; and the Dallas Submarines, Shreveport Gassers, and Galveston Pirates of the Texas League. He led the Minnesota-Wisconsin League in batting in 1910 with a .365 average and 92 runs scored, and led the Southern League in stolen bases with 54 in 1914. He played center field and occasionally first base. He broke into the Majors with Cleveland the same week "Shoeless Joe" Jackson was brought up, and they played next to each other in the outfield. He was a Major League teammate of Hall-of-Famers Cy Young and Napoleon "Nap" Lajoie.
Dave was baptized David Cornelius Callahan, but a family idiosyncrasy was that all the boys used "Joseph" as their middle names. His parents, John Cahalane and Hanora Breen, were Irish immigrants who changed the family name to Callahan in 1882, six years before Dave was born. After high school, he worked as a machinist before signing with the Kewanee (IL) Boilermakers in 1908. He worked in the off-season as a salesman (he continued in sales after leaving baseball in 1924).
David married Caroline S. Kohrt in 1927 in Ottawa, Illinois. She was a longtime teacher in the Ottawa school system. They divorced in 1943, but stayed friends.
Dave was admitted to the LaSalle County Nursing Home at the age of 73 in 1961, where he died eight years later. He was buried next to his Parents in Mt. Calvary Cemetery in his boyhood home town of Seneca, Illinois.
Dave was baptized David Cornelius Callahan, but a family idiosyncrasy was that all the boys used "Joseph" as their middle names. His parents, John Cahalane and Hanora Breen, were Irish immigrants who changed the family name to Callahan in 1882, six years before Dave was born. After high school, he worked as a machinist before signing with the Kewanee (IL) Boilermakers in 1908. He worked in the off-season as a salesman (he continued in sales after leaving baseball in 1924).
David married Caroline S. Kohrt in 1927 in Ottawa, Illinois. She was a longtime teacher in the Ottawa school system. They divorced in 1943, but stayed friends.
Dave was admitted to the LaSalle County Nursing Home at the age of 73 in 1961, where he died eight years later. He was buried next to his Parents in Mt. Calvary Cemetery in his boyhood home town of Seneca, Illinois.
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