Joseph Jerome McGinnity (March 20, 1871 - November 14, 1929), nicknamed Iron Man, was an American right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball at the turn of the 20th century. Born in Cornwall Township, Henry County, Illinois, he reached the majors in 1899. After a ten-year major league career he continued to pitch in the minor leagues, eventually bowing out of baseball for good at the age of 54, having amassed 453 wins as a professional ballpla...
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Joseph Jerome McGinnity (March 20, 1871 - November 14, 1929), nicknamed Iron Man, was an American right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball at the turn of the 20th century. Born in Cornwall Township, Henry County, Illinois, he reached the majors in 1899. After a ten-year major league career he continued to pitch in the minor leagues, eventually bowing out of baseball for good at the age of 54, having amassed 453 wins as a professional ballplayer. He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1946.
McGinnity had a somewhat brief (especially for a Hall of Famer) but effective big league career. In his first year in the majors in 1899, he went 28-16 with the Baltimore Orioles with a 2.68 ERA. McGinnity bounced around with several teams, including the Brooklyn Superbas (1900) and the American League's Baltimore Orioles (1901 - 1902), before settling in with the New York Giants at the end of the 1902 season.
His success wasn't affected by the constant shifts, however, as he posted...
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