FILE - In this Oct. 4, 1951, file photo, New York Giants' Monte Irvin, right, successfully steals home as New York Yankees catcher Yogi Berra steps up to the plate with the ball in the first inning of game 1 in baseball's World Series at Yankee Stadium in New York. Irvin, a Hall of Fame 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 Monday night, Jan. 11, 2016, of natural causes at his Houston home. He was 96. (AP Photo/File