This baseball player (picture taken circa 1921) is my wife’s father’s father’s mother’s brother’s daughter’s husband. It was (circa 1918) Irvin's second marriage, to which he brought a stepson from his first. Irvin lived 1877-1936.

Born in Wooster, Ohio, Irvin first played professional baseball in 1898 — in Youngstown, Ohio. Two years later, he played in the South Atlantic League and was bought by Birmingham (Alabama). Pittsburgh had him around 1903, and Boston thereafter. In 1907, he returned to Birmingham. Purchased by Brooklyn, he stayed there for eight years, finally jumping to Baltimore in 1914. He was in Elmira when the U.S. entered the war and left to become a government inspector of motors. Subsequently, he started a business in Buffalo but baseball lured him back: this time to Jersey City.

A scout, coach, and occasional pitcher for Philadelphia in 1921, Irvin became their manager in August of that year and remained so all of 1922. In 1930, he coached at the University of Rochester — in which city he died.

The 'K' stood for Key, but because of the prominence, in the news of the day, of Wilhelm II, emperor of Germany 1888-1918, Irvin, at some point, found himself nicknamed Kaiser or — more affectionately — Kize.