Joe McGinnity

Joe McGinnity

Pitcher
Born: (1871-03-20)March 20, 1871
Cornwall Township, Illinois
Died: November 14, 1929(1929-11-14) (aged 58)
Brooklyn, New York
Batted: Right Threw: Right 
MLB debut
April 18, 1899 for the Baltimore Orioles
Last MLB appearance
October 5, 1908 for the New York Giants
Career statistics
Win-loss record     246–142
Earned run average     2.66
Strikeouts     1,068
Teams
Career highlights and awards
Member of the National
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Induction     1946
Election Method     Veterans Committee

Joseph Jerome McGinnity (March 20, 1871 – November 14, 1929) was an American right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball (MLB) in the late 19th and early 20th century. McGinnity played in MLB for ten years, pitching for the National League's (NL) Baltimore Orioles (1899) and Brooklyn Superbas (1900), before jumping to the American League (AL) to play for the Baltimore Orioles (AL) (1901–1902). He returned to the NL with the New York Giants (1902–1908). McGinnity continued to pitch in the minor leagues, eventually retiring from baseball for good at the age of 54.

In MLB, he won 246 games with a 2.66 earned run average (ERA). He had seven 20-win seasons and two 30-win seasons.[1] Including his time in the minor leagues, McGinnity won close to 500 games as a professional ballplayer.[2] He led MLB in wins five times (1899, 1900, 1903, 1904, and 1906) and ERA once (1904). With the Giants, he won the 1905 World Series. His teams also won NL pennants in 1900 and 1904.

McGinnity was nicknamed "Iron Man" because he worked in an iron foundry during the baseball offseasons. His nickname came to convey his longevity and durability, as he routinely pitched in both games of doubleheaders.[3] McGinnity is considered one of the better players in the history of the New York Giants.[4] The Veterans Committee elected him to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1946.

Early life

McGinnity's father, Peter, was born in Dublin, Ireland, and emigrated to the United States in 1861.[5] Peter worked in coal mines and on the farm owned by John and Rebecca Denning, and they accepted him, allowing him to move in with them in their Henry County farm.[5] John and Rebecca moved to Oregon, leaving the homestead in the hands of Peter and their daughter, Hannah. The two married in August 1865, three months before the birth of their first son, William.[6] Their second son, Peter, was born in 1869, and Joe was born in 1871. The McGinnity's had four more children.[7]

Joe received little formal schooling.[8] Due to the transient lifestyle of coal miners, his family moved frequently during his childhood. The McGinnity's moved to Gallatin County in 1878.[7] Two days after the birth of their seventh child, Peter died in an accident. At the age of eight, Joe and his older brothers went to work in the mines to support their family.[7] In 1880, the family moved to Springfield, Illinois, where Joe and his brothers worked for the Springfield Coal Company. They moved to Decatur, Illinois less than six months later, continuing to mine coal, while their mother cleaned houses.[7]

Baseball career

Early career

While living in Decatur, McGinnity began playing baseball with other coal miners in their leisure time.[7] The owner of the Decatur Coal Company founded the Decatur Baseball Association in 1886.[9] An outfielder, McGinnity substituted for his team's pitcher in an 1888 game, which he won. He continued to pitch from that point on.[10] He pitched for semi-professional teams based in Decatur in 1888 and 1889.[10] His family headed west, stopping in the Indian Territory on their way to Montana, where Hannah's sister struck gold in their coal mine.[11] McGinnity and his brothers worked in a coal mine in Krebs.[12] There, he met his future wife, Mary Redpath, the oldest daughter of a fellow coal miner. McGinnity also played baseball for the local team. He increased baseball's popularity in the area, and was later referred to as "the father of Oklahoma baseball" by a sportswriter for The Oklahoman, as he organized, managed, and pitched for teams in Krebs.[12] One of these teams began traveling to other towns along the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad to play against their local teams.[13] He also pitched for teams in neighboring towns.[14]

McGinnity made his professional debut pitching in minor league baseball for the Montgomery Colts of the Class-B Southern Association in 1893. He pitched for the Kansas City Blues of the Class-A Western League during the 1894 season. Combined for Montgomery and Kansas City, McGinnity had a 21-29 win-loss record, while walking more batters than he could strikeout, and allowing more than a hit per inning pitched.[3]

Released by Kansas City after the season, McGinnity moved to Springfield, Illinois, where he worked as a coal miner, bartender, and operated a saloon.[15] McGinnity also pitched locally as a semi-professional for teams in Springfield and Decatur, Illinois, receiving a salary between $1 to $3 (between $26.86 to $83.81 in current dollar terms) for each game.[3][15] During this time, McGinnity developed a sidearm pitch he nicknamed "old Sal", described as a "slow curve",[16] which became a feature of his later success.[15][17][18] While pitching for a semi-professional team, McGinnity defeated the National League's (NL) Baltimore Orioles in an exhibition game after he had already defeated a team from Chatham, Illinois earlier in the day.[15]

McGinnity signed with the Peoria Distillers of the Class-B Western Association for the 1898 season, marking his return to professional baseball. That season, McGinnity compiled a 9-4 record for Peoria, allowing only 118 hits and 60 walks while striking out 74 batters in 142 innings.[3]

Major League Baseball

McGinnity (fifth from right) with the New York Giants before the 1905 World Series

McGinnity signed with the Orioles of the NL for the 1899 season.[15] In his first year in the NL, he had a 28–16 record. His 28 wins led the NL, while he ranked second with 48 games, third with a 2.68 earned run average (ERA), and fourth with 366 1⁄3 innings pitched.[3]

When Orioles manager Ned Hanlon was hired to manage the Brooklyn Superbas, receiving an ownership stake in the team to do so, he assigned several of his star players, including McGinnity, Joe Kelley, Dan McGann, Hughie Jennings and Willie Keeler to the Superbas.[19] McGinnity posted a 28–8 record for Brooklyn in the 1900 season. His 28 wins and 343 innings pitched led the league, as the Dodgers won the NL pennant. McGinnity also pitched two complete games in the Chronicle-Telegraph Cup, as the Superbas defeated the Pittsburgh Pirates.[3]

With the formation of the American League (AL) as a competitor to the NL, McGinnity was one of the NL players who jumped to the AL, signing with the Baltimore Orioles of the AL before the 1901 season.[20] He received a salary of $2,800 ($75,212 in current dollar terms), though Brooklyn offered him a salary almost twice as large.[3]

During a brawl that erupted during a game against the Detroit Tigers on August 21, 1901, McGinnity spat on umpire Tom Connolly. McGinnity was arrested for the incident and permanently suspended by AL president Ban Johnson, who wanted there to be no fighting in AL games. Johnson later cut the suspension down to 12 days after McGinnity apologized.[3][21] McGinnity compiled a 26-20 record for the 1901 Orioles, and his 48 games, 39 complete games, and 382 innings pitched led the AL.[3]

McGinnity with the New York Giants in 1904

McGinnity began the 1902 season with the Orioles. However, the franchise began to fall into significant debt. Joe Kelley, star player for the Orioles and son-in-law of part-owner John Mahon, reported that the team owed as much as $12,000 ($322,338 in current dollar terms).[22] Unable to afford that debt, Mahon purchased shares of the team from Kelley and player-manager John McGraw, who had resigned from the team and signed with the New York Giants of the NL. With this, Mahon became the majority shareholder. On July 17, 1902, Mahon sold his interest in the Orioles to Andrew Freedman, principal owner of the Giants, and John T. Brush, principal owner of the Cincinnati Reds, also of the NL. That day, Freedman and Brush released McGinnity, McGraw, Kelley, Roger Bresnahan, Jack Cronin, Cy Seymour, and Dan McGann from their Oriole contracts. Brush then signed Kelley and Seymour to the Reds, while Freedman signed McGinnity, Bresnahan, Cronin, and McGann, joining McGraw, his new player-manager, on the Giants.[23] McGinnity allegedly attempted to contact Johnson that night, offering to stay with the Orioles if he could receive Johnson's personal assurance that he was welcome to stay. McGinnity did not hear back from Johnson, who had left his phone off the hook that night to avoid being contacted, and joined his fellow teammates with the Giants.[21]

"It was difficult for a batter to get [McGinnity's] measure. Sometimes his fingers would almost scrape the ground as he hurled the ball. He knew all the tricks for putting a batter on the spot."

 – Connie Mack[15]

With the Giants for the 1903 season, McGinnity won 31 games. He also set NL records with 48 games started and 434 innings pitched, records that still stand today.[3][24] In 1903, McGinnity started both games of a doubleheader on numerous occasions. He performed this feat three times in a single month, winning all six games. On the final instance, The New York Times reported "he seemed fresh enough to tackle the visitors for a third contest if that were necessary".[25] He pitched over 100 innings in the month of August.[24] Wins by McGinnity and fellow pitcher Christy Mathewson accounted for 73% of the Giants' winning games in 1903, setting a record for a pitching tandem.[3] After the season, McGinnity and some of his teammates threatened to quit the Giants due to the treatment of Brush, now the Giants owner, for allegedly going back on a promise to provide the Giants with a monetary bonus for having the Giants finish in the top three of the NL and a share of the gate receipts from exhibition games, in which they were paid $56.35 ($1,458 in current dollar terms), though Brush allegedly had made over $200,000 ($5,173,333 in current dollar terms). McGinnity claimed that he would pitch in the California League, as he had received a salary offer for "$1,000 ($25,867 in current dollar terms) more than [he] got in New York".[26]Jack Warner eventually joined McGinnity in publicly threatening to quit.[27]

McGinnity set a MLB record during the 1904 season recording his tenth win in 21 team games on May 21.[28] In 1904, McGinnity had a 35–8 record, leading the NL in games (51) innings pitched (408), shutouts (9), saves (5), and his career-best 1.61 ERA.[3] With the Giants competing for the pennant, McGinnity again won both games in a doubleheader three times in a matter of weeks.[29] Aided by McGinnity, the Giants again won the NL pennant.[29] However, they did not compete in the 1904 World Series as Brush and McGraw refused to face the AL champion Boston Pilgrims, following their altercations with Johnson.[30] After the 1904 season, McGinnity attempted to hold out from the Giants when Brush refused to allow McGinnity to play winter baseball with a team in the Southern United States.[31]

Players of the National League (NL) by team, organized around NL president Harry Pulliam

McGinnity won 21 games in the 1905 season, as the Giants won the NL pennant. This year, the Giants participated in the 1905 World Series, against the AL champion Philadelphia Athletics. McGinnity started Games Two and Four of the five game series against the Athletics, winning one and losing one, while Mathewson pitched the other three. All five games, including the game McGinnity lost to Chief Bender, were shutouts.[32][33] In 1906, McGinnity again led the NL in wins, with 27.[3] This came in spite of a suspension McGinnity served for fighting Pirates catcher Heinie Peitz, which NL president Harry Pulliam described as "attempting to make the ball park a slaughterhouse."[3] The Mayor of Pittsburgh, who attended the game, insisted that McGinnity be arrested.[34]

In the 1907 season, McGinnity finished with a 18-18 record with a 3.16 ERA, allowing more than a hit per inning for the first time since the 1901 season. He missed the beginning of the 1908 season with a severe fever. In June 1908, Brush put McGinnity on waivers, hoping another owner would relieve him of McGinnity's $5,000 salary ($129,333 in current dollar terms). He tried to wave McGinnity again in August, but both times McGinnity went unclaimed.[3] Despite this, McGinnity reverted to his old form: from August 22 through the end of the season, McGinnity had a 11-7 record, five shutouts, a 2.27 ERA, and an NL-leading five saves.[3] The Giants released McGinnity on February 27, 1909,[3] when McGinnity decided to pay for his own release.[35]

Later career

The Newark Indians of the Class-A Eastern League (EL) made McGinnity a part-owner in 1909. The press reported that he would operate the team as a farm team of the Giants, though McGinnity denied these reports.[35] When McGinnity could not retain manager Harry Wolverton, he stepped in as player-manager for the Indians.[36] That season, he had a 29-16 record. His 422 innings pitched and 11 shutouts set EL single-season records.[3] He also won both games of doubleheaders on August 27, 1909, and July 23, 1912.[3]

McGinnity played for and managed the Indians through the 1912. The Indians finished second in the EL in 1909 and 1910.[37] McGinnity then became player-manager of the Tacoma Tigers of the Class-B Northwestern League, managing the Tigers from 1913 through the 1915 season. McGinnity had an ownership stake in the team, which he had to sell in order to field the team in 1915.[38] He also briefly played for the Venice Tigers of the Class-A Pacific Coast League in 1914. McGinnity became player-manager of the Butte Miners of the Northwestern League in 1916, bringing with him several players from Tacoma.[39][40] In June 1917, he sold his stock in the team and secured his release.[41] He played for the Great Falls Electrics of the Northwestern League for the remainder of the 1917 season.[42]

McGinnity served as player-manager of the Danville Veterans of the Class-B Illinois–Indiana–Iowa League in the 1922 season and Dubuque Climbers of the Class-D Mississippi Valley League during the 1923 season.[43] With Dubuque, McGinnity won 15 games at age 52.[44] One of those wins was a shutout, pitched in a record one hour and seven minutes.[45] Two years later, he returned to play for Dubuque[43] and Springfield Senators of the Illinois–Indiana–Iowa League during the 1925 season. He pitched in his final professional game on July 28, 1925, after participating in an old-timers game earlier in the day.[3][15]

McGinnity joined the coaching staff of former teammate Wilbert Robinson, along with Kelley, for the Brooklyn Dodgers during the 1926 MLB season.[3] McGinnity and Kelley were not retained after the season.[46]

Personal life

McGinnity's American Tobacco Company baseball card, 1909

McGinnity acquired his nickname, "Iron Man," before his doubleheader pitching became widely discussed.[30] According to Lee Allen in The National League Story (1961), a reporter asked McGinnity, while he was still a minor league pitcher, what he did in between seasons. "I'm an iron man," he answered. "I work in a foundry." McGinnity's wife's family operated an iron foundry in McAlester, Oklahoma, where McGinnity worked in the offseasons.[3]

While working with Williams College's baseball team in 1929, McGinnity became ill. He had surgery to remove tumors from his bladder, and was said to be in critical condition. After the surgery, he was quoted as saying "it's the ninth inning, and I guess they're going to get me out."[29] He died November 14, 1929 in Brooklyn, New York, at the home of his daughter.[47] He was interred in McAlester.[48]

Legacy

McGinnity finished his MLB career with 246 career wins, seven 20-win seasons, and two 30-win seasons.[1] He had nearly 500 professional wins including his years in the minor leagues.[2] McGinnity set a career record in batters hit by pitch with 152.[49]

After his death, McGinnity was eulogized as "hard player" and "a fighter with brains" who hated to lose.[15] Jennings described him as an even better fielder than he was a pitcher.[17] McGraw said that McGinnity was "the hardest working pitcher I ever had on my ballcub". Connie Mack called him a "magician".[8]

After failing to receive the necessary votes from the Baseball Writers Association of America for entry in the National Baseball Hall of Fame on seven occasions,[1] McGinnity was elected to the Hall of Fame posthumously by the Veterans Committee in the 1946 balloting.[50] He was also inducted into the Quad City Sports Hall of Fame in 1988.[48]

In a 1976 article in Esquire magazine, sportswriter Harry Stein published an "All Time All-Star Argument Starter," consisting of five ethnic baseball teams. Though Stein chose McGinnity as the right-handed pitcher for the Irish team, the team was omitted from the article due to space limitations. The Irish team was included in The Book of Lists, published the following year.[51]Lawrence Ritter and Donald Honig included McGinnity in their 1981 book, The 100 Greatest Baseball Players of All Time.[52] The Chicago Tribune included McGinnity in their all-time Illinois team in 1990.[53]

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Kid Nichols
Jack Chesbro
Christy Mathewson 		National League Wins Champion
1899–1900 (1899 with Jay Hughes)
1903–1904
1906		 Succeeded by
Bill Donovan
Christy Mathewson
Christy Mathewson
Preceded by
Sam Leever 		National League ERA Champion
1904		 Succeeded by
Christy Mathewson
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