AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - Baseball Hall of Famer Monte Irvin, a Negro League star who became one of the first black players in Major League Baseball and a mentor to Willie Mays, died on Monday at his ...

Monte Irvin, one of Major League Baseball’s first black players and the second-oldest living Hall of Famer, died Monday at his home in Houston. He was 96. The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum ...

Hall of Fame center fielder Willie Mays was once quoted as saying, "I think I was the best baseball player I ever saw." But when it came to life off the field, the legendary player credits his former ...

Hall of Famer Monte Irvin, a power-hitting outfielder who starred for the New York Giants in the 1950s in a career abbreviated by Major League Baseball’s exclusion of black players, is dead. He was 96 ...