Arthur Irwin
As player
- Worcester Worcesters (1880–1882)
- Providence Grays (1884–1886)
- Philadelphia Quakers (1887–1889)
- Washington Nationals (1889)
- Boston Reds (1890–1891)
- Philadelphia Phillies (1894)
As manager
- Washington Nationals (1889)
- Boston Reds (1891)
- Philadelphia Phillies (1894–1895)
- New York Giants (1896)
- Washington Senators (1898–1899)
Arthur Albert Irwin (February 14, 1858 – July 16, 1921), nicknamed Doc, Sandy or Foxy, was a Canadian-American shortstop and manager in Major League Baseball (MLB) during the late nineteenth century. Irwin popularized the fielder's glove during his playing career. He also invented the football scoreboard and ran a short-lived professional soccer league. After thirteen seasons as a major league player and player-manager, Irwin became an MLB scout and a baseball coach at the college and minor league levels.
Shortly after his death from an apparent suicide, Irwin made headlines when it was discovered that he led a double life for nearly thirty years. Two wives and families survived him in separate cities.
Read more about Arthur Irwin: Early Life, Playing Career, Coaching Career, Scouting Career, Innovations, Death
Famous quotes containing the word arthur:
“So let man consider of what he was created;
he was created of gushing water
issuing between the loins and the breast-bones.”
—Qur’An. The Night-Star, 86:5-7, ed. Arthur J. Arberry (1955)