Monford Merrill Irvin (1919 - 2016)

Born 25 Feb 1919 in Haleburg, Henry, Alabama, United States

Died 11 Jan 2016 at age 96 in Houston, Harris, Texas, United States

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Biography

Monford Irvin is a part of US Black heritage.

Monte Irvin is a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame, elected in 1973. He played both right and left field for the Newark Eagles of Negro League, and later played in Major League Baseball for the New York Giants and the Chicago Cubs. He was an All-Star in 1952, and helped the Giants win the World Series in 1954.

Monte was the eighth child of thirteen born to Cupid and Elizabeth Henderson Irvin. While the family lived in Haleburg, Cupid worked as a sharecropper. A difficult system where the family struggled to make ends meet according to Monte's autobiography. The promise of a better economic life factored in with the family move to Orange, New Jersey.

Note

Some sources spell the last name "Irving" but no source was located to indicate that the last name was ever changed. -PAM

Sources

• Wikipedia- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monte_Irvin

Irvin, Monte, with James Riley, Nice Guys Finish First: The Autobiography of Monte Irvin (New York: Carroll and Graf, 1996).

Society for American Baseball Research- https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/monte-irvin/

United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X46Q-4RQ : accessed 23 July 2021), Munford Irving in household of Cupid Irving, Orange, Essex, New Jersey, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 580, sheet 1A, line 20, family 3, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 1343; FHL microfilm 2,341,078.

"United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K4RQ-G42 : 11 January 2021), Monford Irving in household of Cupid Irving, Orange, Essex, New Jersey, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 7-316, sheet 9A, line 24, family 165, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 2339.