Arthur Albert Irwin (February 14, 1858 – July 16, 1921), nicknamed "Doc", "Sandy", "Cutrate" or "Foxy", was a Canadian-American shortstop and manager in Major League Baseball (MLB) during the late nineteenth century. He played regularly in the major leagues for eleven years, spending two of those seasons as a player-manager. He played on the 1884 Providence Grays team which won the first interleague series to decide the world champions of baseball. Irwin then served as a major league manager for several years.\n', '

Irwin occupied numerous baseball roles in the latter years of his career, having spent time as a college baseball coach, a major league scout and business manager, a minor league owner and manager, and a National League umpire. For most of Irwin\'s career, the collegiate and professional baseball schedules allowed him to hold positions at both levels in the same year. \n', '

Irwin also produced several innovations which impacted sports. He took the field with the first baseball fielder\'s glove, invented a type of football scoreboard, promoted motor-paced cycling tracks and ran a short-lived professional soccer league.\n', '

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