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Bats: R · Throws: R · Born 1919-02-25 · Played 1949–1956 · Career WAR 32.4 (bWAR) ·

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BBREF=irvinmo01, LAHMAN=irvinmo01, MLBAM=116403, RETROSHEET=irvim101

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Batting

Year	Team	Lg	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	WAR
1949	NY1	NL	36	76	7	17	3	2	0	7	0		17	11	.224	.366	.316	.682	0.1
1950	NY1	NL	110	374	61	112	19	5	15	66	3		52	41	.299	.392	.497	.889	3.6
1951	NY1	NL	151	558	94	174	19	11	24	121	12	2	89	44	.312	.415	.514	.929	6.9
1952	NY1	NL	46	126	10	39	2	1	4	21	0	1	10	11	.310	.365	.437	.802	0.6
1953	NY1	NL	124	444	72	146	21	5	21	97	2	0	55	34	.329	.406	.541	.947	4.4
1954	NY1	NL	135	432	62	113	13	3	19	64	7	4	70	23	.262	.363	.438	.801	2.7
1955	NY1	NL	51	150	16	38	7	1	1	17	3	0	17	15	.253	.337	.333	.670	0.4
1956	CHN	NL	111	339	44	92	13	3	15	50	1	0	41	41	.271	.346	.460	.806	2.4
Total			764	2499	366	731	97	31	99	443	28	7	351	220	.293	.380	.475	.855	21.1

Fielding

Year	Team	Lg	Pos	G	GS	Inn	PO	A	E	DP
1949	NY1	NL	1B	5			40	3	0	5
1949	NY1	NL	3B	5			1	11	1	1
1949	NY1	NL	OF	10			15	3	0	0
1950	NY1	NL	1B	59			459	48	11	62
1950	NY1	NL	3B	1			1	1	0	0
1950	NY1	NL	OF	49			109	2	1	0
1951	NY1	NL	1B	39			348	50	8	47
1951	NY1	NL	OF	112			237	10	1	1
1952	NY1	NL	OF	32			44	3	0	1
1953	NY1	NL	OF	113			244	10	7	4
1954	NY1	NL	1B	1	0	1.1	2	0	0	0
1954	NY1	NL	3B	1	0	2.0	0	0	1	0
1954	NY1	NL	OF	128	118	1069.1	274	7	7	0
1955	NY1	NL	OF	45	39	363.2	94	4	4	0
1956	CHN	NL	OF	96	88	777.0	216	6	2	0
Total				696	245	2213.1	2084	158	43	121

Hall of Fame ballots

Year	Voted by	Votes	Needed	Inducted
1973	Negro League			Yes

Ejections (1)

Date	As	Reason
1948-07-23	Player	Call at home

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Monte IrvinWWikipedia↗

Batting

Fielding

Hall of Fame ballots

Ejections (1)