Arthur Irwin, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Canadian-American baseball player and manager
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Place of Birth: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
About Arthur Irwin
- Arthur Albert Irwin (February 14, 1858 – July 16, 1921), nicknamed "Doc", "Sandy", "Cutrate" or "Foxy", was a Canadian-American shortstop and manager in Major League Baseball (MLB) during the late nineteenth century.
- He played regularly in the major leagues for eleven years, spending two of those seasons as a player-manager.
- He played on the 1884 Providence Grays team which won the first interleague series to decide the world champions of baseball.
- Irwin then served as a major league manager for several years. Irwin occupied numerous baseball roles in the latter years of his career, having spent time as a college baseball coach, a major league scout and business manager, a minor league owner and manager, and a National League umpire.
- For most of Irwin's career, the collegiate and professional baseball schedules allowed him to hold positions at both levels in the same year.
- Irwin also produced several innovations which impacted sports.
- He took the field with the first baseball fielder's glove, invented a type of football scoreboard, promoted motor-paced cycling tracks and ran a short-lived professional soccer league. Irwin became terminally ill with cancer in the last weeks of his life.
- Shortly after his death from an apparent suicide, Irwin made headlines when it was discovered that two wives and families survived him in separate cities.
- He had been married to one woman since the 1880s and to the other since the 1890s.
- He was posthumously elected to the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame in 1989.
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