Aubrey: Monte Irvin’s high school days
From SABR member Mark Aubrey at Baseball Nuggets on January 13, 2016:
Monte Irvin slipped from this earth this week. He was a great ball player and will be missed.
While doing some research about his early years I found his high school yearbook. It is his senior year at Orange High School in Orange, New Jersey.
In my joy of finding this I sent it out over social media, mistakenly adding that it was from East Orange HS.
Now, why did I do that? Because Baseball-Reference, Seamheads, and even the SABR BioProject entry for Monte Irvin have that info. I had it in my head and that’s what I wrote. But I was wrong.
This clipping from the Trenton Evening Times says that “One of the newcomers is Monte Irvin, former Orange High School and Lincoln University athlete.”
Read the full article here: http://baseballnuggets.blogspot.com/2016/01/monte-irvins-high-school.html
Originally published: January 14, 2016. Last Updated: January 14, 2016.