FILE - In this Aug. 6, 1973, file photo, former New York Giants outfielder Monte Irvin, left, accepts his Hall of Fame plaque from baseball commissioner Bowie Kuhn in Cooperstown, N.Y. 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)