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...only wish," said Giant Outfielder Monte Irvin last year, "that I'd had my chance to play in the big leagues ten years ago. I was 22 then and twice the ballplayer I am now. I could run faster and throw harder. My reflexes were sharper, and I could make a lot more use of my power...
...Irvin's performances in the Negro National League back up his modest boast. But not until Jackie Robinson broke baseball's color line did fleet-footed Monte Irvin get his chance. By that time...
...first, his chances looked mighty thin. Brooklyn and Cleveland snubbed him. He was too old, they said. The New York Giants took him for their Jersey City team in 1949. Irvin hit .373 in 63 games, and the Giants brought him up to the majors for a trial. But Irvin was overeager to make up for lost time, and he failed by hitting a miserable .224. The next year he started all over again at Jersey City. He hit a fabulous .510 for 18 games, and the Giants gave him another chance. This time Irvin made it, hitting an even...
Last year, Irvin came into his own. He patrolled left field with the speed of a rookie, the finesse of a pro. Manager Leo Durocher called Irvin the most underrated player in the major leagues. To show that he meant what he said, Durocher recommended that his 1952 salary be doubled, up to a reported $25,000 a season...
Destiny may have been more casual in those days, but she was just as determined to give a simple soldier an awful tough time. In The Life of Billy Yank, a brother volume to The Life of Johnny Reb (1943), Historian Bell Irvin Wiley recites the hard facts of daily life in the Union armies-or rather, he lets "Billy Yank" do his own talking, through the letters and other scraps of identity he left lying in his prodigious trail...