While doing some research about his early years I found his high school yearbook. It is his senior year at Orange High School in Orange, New Jersey.
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| 1938 Orange Peel - Orange HS, Orange, NJ image from Ancestry.com |
In my joy of finding this I sent it out over social media, mistakenly adding that it was from East Orange HS.
Now, why did I do that? Because Baseball-Reference, Seamheads, and even the SABR BioProject entry for Monte Irvin have that info. I had it in my head and that's what I wrote. But I was wrong.
This clipping from the Trenton Evening Times says that "One of the newcomers is Monte Irvin, former Orange High School and Lincoln University athlete."
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| Trenton Evening Times - May 12, 1939 image from GenealogyBank.com |
Here's another photo of Monte from his yearbook. He was a member of the Student Patrol.
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| 1938 Orange Peel - Orange HS, Orange, NJ image from Ancestry.com |
Here are the baseball, basketball, football, and track teams from that same yearbook. Individual players aren't named and I am not good at identifying people in photographs. I assume that he's included in these photos.
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| 1938 Orange Peel - Orange HS, Orange, NJ image from Ancestry.com |
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| 1938 Orange Peel - Orange HS, Orange, NJ image from Ancestry.com |
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| 1938 Orange Peel - Orange HS, Orange, NJ image from Ancestry.com |
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| 1938 Orange Peel - Orange HS, Orange, NJ image from Ancestry.com |
So, I think that Monte Irvin attended Orange High School, in Orange, New Jersey. How does one request change at other sites that have different information?
Great work, Mark. I can change it at Seamheads and, I suppose, Wikipedia. Where did the East Orange HS info come from? I wonder if he transferred?
ReplyDeleteI may be the culprit for BB-REF's erroneous data. I submitted a lot of the early High School attended data and I had East Orange HS. I do have in my notes from meeting w/Monte on one of his visits to Denver a dozen years ago or so that he had played (somewhere, I don't know where) under an assumed name - Jimmy Nelson - from East Orange, NJ. This was presumably to protect his college eligibility when he attended Lincoln University in Pennsylvania. I have a faint memory that he took the name of a friend, perhaps a former teammate or rival player from EAST Orange HS, I believe. I had hoped to dig around for a boxscore, but never came up with any hits.. I figure if anyone can find it, it would be either of you two guys. Good luck. I'll submit this link to bugs@bbref and I suspect you'll see that Hans or Sean will change it pronto. Rod Nelson
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