Monday, April 11, 2016

I is for Irvin

Cubs Home run hitters from Aramis to Zimmerman



I is for Irvin




Monte Irvin (HOF)

1919 -2016







Giants, Cubs

The first paragraph of Monte Irvin's page at the baseball hall of fame website reads as follows

Monte Irvin was not the first African-American player in the modern major leagues, but of all the talented players who made the perilous trip from the Negro leagues to the big leagues in the late 1940s, Irvin may have been the best.

Irvin played with the Newark Eagles of the Negro League and came to the major leagues with the New York Giants in 1949 and played seven season there.  In 1956 he finished his career with the Cubs and hit 15  of his 99 major league homers in his farewell season.  Irving was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1973.

Irvin passed a way in January of this year 6 week prior to his 97th birthday.

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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

He must have been really good if he was inducted into the Hall Of Fame with that short of career in the Majors.