45 Facts About Arthur Irwin

Arthur Irwin played regularly in the major leagues for eleven years, spending two of those seasons as a player-manager.

Arthur Irwin played on the 1884 Providence Grays team which won the first interleague series to decide the world champions of baseball.

Arthur 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.

Arthur Irwin 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.

Arthur Irwin became terminally ill with cancer in the last weeks of his life.

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Shortly after his death from an apparent suicide, Arthur Irwin made headlines when it was discovered that two wives and families survived him in separate cities.

Arthur Irwin had been married to one woman since the 1880s and to the other since the 1890s.

Arthur Irwin was posthumously elected to the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame in 1989.

Arthur Irwin was born in 1858 in Toronto, Ontario, to an Irish blacksmith and a Canadian mother.

Arthur Irwin played local amateur baseball from 1873 until he was recruited by the Worcester team of the National Association in 1879.

Arthur Irwin led the league in assists in his rookie season, and remained with the team through 1882, when it folded due to poor attendance.

Arthur Irwin next spent three seasons with the Providence Grays, and was captain and starting shortstop of the 1884 Providence team that became world champions.

Arthur Irwin moved on to the newly formed Philadelphia Quakers in 1886.

Arthur Irwin next played for the Boston Reds in the Players' League in 1890.

Arthur Irwin played in one game while managing the 1894 Philadelphia Phillies.

Arthur Irwin played 947 games at shortstop and 56 games at third base.

Arthur Irwin coached at the University of Pennsylvania between 1893 and 1895, and managed the Philadelphia major league club during those last two seasons.

Nonetheless, by 1895, Arthur Irwin's coaching role at Penn included the selection of players and other duties that traditionally fell to the team captain.

Arthur Irwin left Philadelphia in 1896 to manage the New York Giants.

Arthur Irwin faced arrest on a libel charge in 1898, which stemmed from comments made by Irwin about the actions of the Philadelphia ownership during his time there.

In 1898, Arthur Irwin traded some of his best players to the Washington major league team.

The moves were seen as particularly suspect when Arthur Irwin was named the Washington manager shortly thereafter.

Arthur Irwin returned for a subsequent term as Penn's coach in 1900, but he left in 1902.

Arthur Irwin, who had previously only filled in for one three-day umpiring stretch in 1881, umpired his first NL game on August 7,1902.

In fifty games as an umpire, Arthur Irwin ejected nine players, including future Hall of Fame inductees Roger Bresnahan and Fred Clarke.

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Arthur Irwin, who had retained partial ownership of the Toronto club, then returned to manage that team for a couple of seasons.

In July 1907, Arthur Irwin resigned as manager of the Mountaineers after fans became disgruntled.

Arthur Irwin became part-owner of the Lewiston Cupids in 1915 and managed that club in the final season of the original New England League.

In 1916, Arthur Irwin publicly accused Philadelphia's Connie Mack of underhanded dealings in obtaining third baseman Jim Ritter from Baltimore.

Arthur Irwin said that Mack convinced the New England League's Baltimore club to draft Ritter so that Mack could later obtain him cheaply.

Arthur Irwin committed 66 errors in 98 games the following year.

Arthur Irwin was president of the American League of Professional Football for its lone season in 1894.

Arthur Irwin was involved in an attempt to popularize roller polo.

Arthur Irwin developed and patented a football scoreboard, which was in use in the Ivy League by the 1890s.

Arthur Irwin owned athletic facilities in Atlantic City, New Jersey, and negotiated with baseball officials about bringing organized baseball there in 1900.

Arthur Irwin opened a motor-paced bicycle racing track in the city in July 1902.

Arthur Irwin's focus on the bicycle track enterprise had been a factor in his resignation from the Penn coaching staff in 1902.

Arthur Irwin became involved with the Hartford Avenue Colosseum Company and oversaw its Philadelphia bicycle track.

On June 21,1921, Arthur Irwin gave up his managerial role with the Hartford club in the Eastern League due to health concerns.

Arthur Irwin was experiencing abdominal trouble and severe nervous attacks.

Arthur Irwin was diagnosed with stomach cancer; he had lost 60 pounds in two weeks.

Shortly after his death, a theory emerged that Arthur Irwin had been robbed for $5,000 and then murdered aboard the ship.

Arthur Irwin first married Elizabeth, the woman in Boston, in 1883.

Arthur Irwin said that his only long trips were baseball-related, when he would scout players in other cities.

In 1989, Arthur Irwin was posthumously inducted into the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame.

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