Hall of Famer Monte Irvin, a power-hitting outfielder who excelled for the New York Giants in the 1950s in a career abbreviated by major-league baseball’s exclusion of black players, died Monday of natural causes at his Houston home. He was 96.
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Hall of Famer Irvin dies at 96
Hall of Famer Monte Irvin, a power-hitting outfielder who excelled for the New York Giants in the 1950s in a career abbreviated by major-league baseball’s exclusion of black players, died Monday of natural causes at his Houston home. He was 96.
Irvin was 30 when he joined the Giants in 1949, two years after Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier.