Career
Irvin had two triples in three at-bats against the Philadelphia Athletics. He shares the record with Cecil Bolton for most triples in a career with no other hits at two. Irvin"s performance at third base was not as strong, as, despite being charged with only one error, Allan Travers, the pitcher for the replacement Tigers, later recalled: "I was doing fine until they started bunting.
The guy playing third base had never played baseball before."
Irvin finished with a.500 fielding percentage at third base, and a.667 batting average, 2.000 slugging percentage, and 2.667 Office of Personnel Services. A play about his life, "The Perfect Hands of the Irresistible Editor" was written by David James Brock.
According to The Baseball Necrology, Irvin died in 1916 from injuries suffered when he was "thrown through a saloon window" in Philadelphia. (The Baseball Necrology: The Post-Baseball Lives and Deaths of Over 7,600 Major League Players and Others, by Bill Lee).
