No, we're running through every team to see if we can figure out what ... Retired numbers: 3 (Bill Terry), 4 (Mel Ott), 11 (Carl Hubbell), 20 (Monte Irvin), 22 (Will Clark), 24 (Willie Mays ...

Monte Irvin, also a future Hall of Famer ... as “traits or talent to be above-average backup.” *If the No.1 team overall in NetRanking, the UConn women, are not one of four No.1 seeds in ...

Here’s the photo again: Hank Thompson and Monte Irvin, who debuted for the Giants ... The Cubs were a bad team in 1954 and the Giants would go on to win the NL pennant and World Series, and ...

It was grueling, with his own teammates campaigning to have him off the team ... Soon other players, such as Monte Irvin, Roy Campanella and Don Newcombe, played in the major leagues. The beloved ...

In July of 1949, Thompson and Monte Irvin were brought up from the Giants farm team in Jersey City. On July 8th (the day I was born) Thompson, starting at second base, became the first black to ...

Monte Irvin, and Willie Mays. The Monarchs were not immune. The team had played in the same stadium that became home to the Athletics after that franchise moved to Kansas City from Philadelphia in ...

He looks fine," Effa Manley, the owner of the Negro Leagues' Newark Eagles, wrote to Eagles shortstop (and future big leaguer) Monte Irvin about his double-play ... we will have enough Eagles on the ...

1) Monte Irvin (1919) Before baseball’s color barrier was broken ... playing all but one of his 15 seasons with the team he debuted with in 1960 (he remained in Chicago but went to the crosstown White ...