Turning obstacles into opportunities
The Story of Nate Irving
Nate Irving was just a kid from New York who grew up watching and loving the competition of baseball. Both of his parents are musicians, his mother is a classical flutes and his father is a concert pianist.
Irving played for his high school baseball team in the Bronx. While he played for his high school team they were not very competitive. so every summer he would have the opportunity to go to Memphis, Tennessee and play for a travel baseball team. Though this travel team Irving was able to get scouted by The University of Virginia.
While Irving was at The University of Virginia he proved he was one of the elite baseball players by starting in 2012, 2013 and 2014.
After his great college career he got drafted to the Arizona Diamondbacks, in the 34th round pick 1,020 in the 2014 Major League Baseball (MLB) draft. On July 2, 2014 he signed a contract with the Pirates and was assigned to the Hillsboro Hops. But then in 2015 the Pirates released him. Irving did not get picked up until 2016 by the Pittsburgh Pirates.
Irving would only play for the pirates until June 2016, but that same month he got signed by the Sussex County Minors.
Irving is currently playing catcher for the Sussex County Minors and is proving that after going through though obstacles nothing will stop him to get his way back to the top.
Irving has learned many lessons in his career and he said if he can tell anything to his younger self it would be. “you don’t know everything.”
