| Monte Irvin | ||
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| Outfielder | ||
| Born: February 25, 1919 Haleburg, Alabama |
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| Batted: Right | Threw: Right | |
| MLB debut | ||
| July 8, 1949 for the New York Giants |
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| Final game | ||
| September 30, 1956 for the Chicago Cubs |
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| Career statistics | ||
| Batting average | . Outfielder is a generic term applied to each of the people playing in the three defensive positions in Baseball farthest from the batter Events 138 - The Emperor Hadrian adopts Antoninus Pius, effectively making him his successor Year 1919 ( MCMXIX) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Haleburg is a town in Henry County, Alabama, United States. It is part of the Dothan Alabama Metropolitan Statistical Area. Events 939 - The Major Occultation or Ghaybat el-Kubra of Muhammad al-Mahdi 1099 - First Crusade: 15000 Champions Major League Baseball World Series: New York Yankees over Brooklyn Dodgers (4-1 All-Star Game The San Francisco Giants are a Major League Baseball team based in, that currently play in the National League West Division. Events 1399 - Henry IV is proclaimed King of England. 1744 - France and Spain defeat the Champions Major League Baseball World Series: New York Yankees over Brooklyn Dodgers (4-3 Don Larsen, MVP The Chicago Cubs are a Professional Baseball franchise based in Chicago, Illinois. Batting average is a Statistic in both Cricket and Baseball measuring the performance of cricket batsmen and baseball hitters, respectively 293 | |
| Home runs | 99 | |
| Runs batted in | 443 | |
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| Member of the National | ||
 Baseball Hall of Fame |
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| Elected | 1973 | |
| Election Method | Negro League Committee | |
Monford Merrill "Monte" Irvin (born February 25, 1919 in Haleburg, Alabama) is a former left fielder and right-handed batter in the Negro Leagues and Major League Baseball who played with the Newark Eagles (1938-42, 46-48), New York Giants (1949-55) and Chicago Cubs (1956). The Newark Eagles was a professional Negro League Baseball team that played in the second Negro National League from The San Francisco Giants are a Major League Baseball team based in, that currently play in the National League West Division. Champions Major League Baseball World Series: New York Yankees over Brooklyn Dodgers (4-1 All-Star Game Champions Major League Baseball World Series: Brooklyn Dodgers over New York Yankees (4-3 Johnny Podres, MVP The Chicago Cubs are a Professional Baseball franchise based in Chicago, Illinois. Champions Major League Baseball World Series: New York Yankees over Brooklyn Dodgers (4-3 Don Larsen, MVP The Major League Baseball All-Star Game, also popularly known as the "Midsummer Classic" is an annual Baseball game between players from the National League For other events named "World Series" see World Series (disambiguation. The 1954 World Series matched the National League champion New York Giants against the American League champion Cleveland Indians. Champions Major League Baseball World Series: Oakland Athletics over New York Mets (4-3 Reggie Jackson, Events 138 - The Emperor Hadrian adopts Antoninus Pius, effectively making him his successor Year 1919 ( MCMXIX) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Haleburg is a town in Henry County, Alabama, United States. It is part of the Dothan Alabama Metropolitan Statistical Area. A left fielder (LF is an Outfielder in the sport of Baseball who plays defense in left field. Part of the History of baseball in the United States series The Negro leagues were American professional Baseball leagues The Newark Eagles was a professional Negro League Baseball team that played in the second Negro National League from The San Francisco Giants are a Major League Baseball team based in, that currently play in the National League West Division. The Chicago Cubs are a Professional Baseball franchise based in Chicago, Illinois.
Although born in Haleburg, Alabama, Irvin grew up in Orange, New Jersey, one of five players who grew up in the Garden State to be elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame. Haleburg is a town in Henry County, Alabama, United States. It is part of the Dothan Alabama Metropolitan Statistical Area. The City of Orange is a township in Essex County, New Jersey, United States. In high school, he starred in four sports and set a state record in the javelin throw. The javelin throw is a Track and field athletics throwing event where the object to be thrown is the javelin, a Spear -like object made of metal fiberglass Monte Irvin attended Lincoln University. Lincoln University ( LU) is America's first degree granting historically black university located in southern Chester County, Pennsylvania
Irvin was one of the first black players to be signed after baseball's color line was broken by Jackie Robinson in 1947. The baseball color line, sometimes called the " Gentleman's Agreement " was the policy unwritten for nearly its entire duration which excluded African Jack Roosevelt "Jackie" Robinson (January 31 1919 – October 24 1972 was a Baseball player for the Brooklyn Dodgers. Athletics Marathon August 20 &mdash Enschede Marathon, Netherlands Men's Winner He fashioned a career of dual excellence both with the Eagles in the Negro Leagues, and with the Giants in the National League. The National League of Professional Baseball Clubs, or simply the National League ( NL) is the older of two leagues constituting Major League Baseball After hitting in the Negro Leagues for high marks of . Batting average is a Statistic in both Cricket and Baseball measuring the performance of cricket batsmen and baseball hitters, respectively 422 and . 396 (1940-41), Irvin won the Triple Crown in the Mexican League with a . For other uses of this term see Triple crown In Baseball, the Triple Crown refers to A batter who (at season's end leads 398 batting average and 30 home runs in 68 games, being rewarded with the Most Valuable Player award. After serving in the military in World War II (1943-45), he returned to the Eagles to lead his team to a league pennant. World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including Irvin won his second batting championship hitting . 401, and was instrumental in beating the Kansas City Monarchs in a seven-game Negro League World Series, batting . The Kansas City Monarchs were the longest-running franchise in the history of Baseball 's Negro Leagues. The Negro League World Series was a post-season Baseball tournament which was held from 1924-1927 and from 1942-1948 between the champions of the Negro Leagues, matching 462 with three home runs. He was a five-time Negro League All-Star (1940-41, 1946-48).
He was approached in 1945 by Brooklyn Dodgers executive Branch Rickey about being signed for the major leagues, but Irvin felt he was not ready to play at that level so soon after leaving the service. The Los Angeles Dodgers are a Major League Baseball team based in Los Angeles California, USA Wesley Branch Rickey ( December 15 1881 &ndash December 9 1965) was an innovative Major League Baseball executive best known Irvin earned MVP honors in the 1945-46 Puerto Rican Winter League, and after he spent the 1948-49 winter in Cuba, the Giants paid $5,000 for his contract. Assigned to Jersey City (International League), Irvin batted . The International League ( IL) is a Minor league baseball league which operates in the eastern United States. 373. He debuted with the Giants on July 8, 1949 as a pinch-hitter. Events 939 - The Major Occultation or Ghaybat el-Kubra of Muhammad al-Mahdi 1099 - First Crusade: 15000 Champions Major League Baseball World Series: New York Yankees over Brooklyn Dodgers (4-1 All-Star Game Back with Jersey City in 1950, he was called up after hitting . 510 with 10 HR in 18 games. Irvin batted . 299 for the Giants that season, playing first base and the outfield. First base, or 1B, is the first of four stations on a Baseball diamond which must be touched in succession by a baserunner in order to score a run
In 1951, Irvin sparked the Giants' miraculous comeback to overtake the Dodgers in the pennant race, batting . Headline Event of the Year Baseball's Shot Heard 'Round the World gives the New York Giants the National League Pennant in the third game of a best-of-three-games 312 with 24 homers and a league-best 121 runs batted in, en route to the World Series (he went 11-24 for . The 1951 World Series matched the two-time defending champion New York Yankees against the New York Giants, who had won the National League pennant 458). That year Irvin teamed with Hank Thompson and Willie Mays to form the first all-black outfield in the majors. Henry Curtis Thompson ( December 8, 1925 &ndash September 30, 1969) best known as Hank Thompson, was an American player Willie Howard Mays Jr (born May 6 1931 is a retired American Baseball player who played the majority of his career with the New York and San Francisco Giants Later, he finished third in the NL's MVP voting. In 1952 he was named to the NL All-Star team. The Major League Baseball All-Star Game, also popularly known as the "Midsummer Classic" is an annual Baseball game between players from the National League
In his major league career, Irvin batted . 293, with 99 home runs, 443 RBI, 366 runs scored, 731 hits, 97 doubles, 31 triples, and 28 stolen bases, with 351 walks for a . In Baseball, a run is scored when a player advances safely around first second and third base and returns safely to Home plate, touching In Baseball statistics, a hit (denoted by H) sometimes called a base hit, is credited to a batter when the batter safely reaches In Baseball, a double is the act of a batter striking the pitched ball and safely reaching Second base without being called out by the Umpire In Baseball, a triple is the act of a batter safely reaching Third base after hitting the ball with neither the benefit of a fielder's misplay (see In Baseball, a stolen base occurs when a Baserunner successfully advances to the next base while the Pitcher is delivering the ball to Home plate A base on balls ( BB) is credited to a batter and against a pitcher in Baseball statistics when a batter receives four pitches that the umpire 383 on base percentage, and 1187 total bases for a . In Baseball statistics, on-base percentage (OBP (sometimes referred to as on-base average ', as the statistic is rarely presented as a true Percentage) 475 slugging average in 764 games played. In Baseball statistics, slugging percentage (abbreviated SLG) is a popular measure of the power of a hitter.
After retiring, Irvin worked as a scout for the New York Mets from 1967-68 and later spent 17 years (1968-1984) as a public relations specialist for the commissioner's office under the Bowie Kuhn administration. "Mets" redirects here For the medical term see Metastasis. The Commissioner of Baseball is the chief executive of Major League Baseball. Bowie Kent Kuhn (October 28 1926 &ndash March 15 2007 was an American Lawyer and sports administrator who served as the 5th commissioner of Major League Baseball In this capacity he became the target of scorn--not racial, but because of what the public saw as a double standard. When Commissioner Kuhn, who had ordered the Braves not to bench Hank Aaron in the opening series in Cincinnati at the start of the 1974 season, sent Irvin to Atlanta, the fans booed Irvin because the Commissioner was holding Aaron to a stricter standard than he cared to follow himself (he attended a "boosters" event for the Cleveland Indians). Henry Louis "Hank" Aaron (born February 5 1934 in Mobile Alabama) nicknamed "Hammer" "Hammerin' Hank” or "Bad Henry” is a retired Champions Major League Baseball 1974 World Series: Oakland Athletics over Los Angeles Dodgers (4-1 Rollie Fingers The Cleveland Indians are a professional baseball team based in Cleveland, Ohio, United States.
Monte Irvin was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1973, primarily on the basis of his play in the Negro Leagues. Athletics For an extensive coverage see 1973 in athletics (track and field Marathon September Today, he serves on the Veterans Committee of the Hall of Fame and actively campaigns for recognition of deserving Negro League veterans. The Veterans Committee, officially the National Baseball Hall of Fame Committee on Baseball Veterans, is a committee of the U
See also
External links
- baseballhalloffame.org – Hall of Fame biography page
- Career statistics and player information from Baseball-Reference
- cmgww.com - Official website
- legacymemorybank.org - Monte Irvin interview on Martin Luther King, Jr.
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National League RBI Champion 1951 |
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