Iron man McGinnity's iron career: in case you didn't know ...The National Baseball Hall of Fame is peppered with athletes' nicknames, most of which tell the story of a player's feats and strengths. But Iron Man Joe McGinnity's nickname (1) An alternate name used to identify yourself in a chat room. (2) A shortcut for identifying a recipient in an e-mail address book. tells two stories: one of his inexhaustible pitching arm and the other of his offseason job in a metalcasting facility. McGinnity's major league career began in 1899 when he joined the Baltimore Orioles This article is about the contemporary American major league baseball team. For other uses, see Baltimore Oriole (disambiguation). The Baltimore Orioles are a professional baseball team based in Baltimore, Maryland. , but he found his greatest success with the New York Giants
n. 1. Sports Two games or events held in succession on the same program, especially in baseball. 2. A train pulled by two locomotives. , and in 1903, he pulled off the feat three times in a single month, winning all six games. McGinnity played for the Giants until 1908. His 10-yr. major league stint brought him 246 wins, 141 losses, 1,068 strikeouts and a 2.66 ERA. Following his major league career, he continued to pitch in the minors until he was 54 years old and retired with nearly 500 wins as a professional. He once won both ends of a double-header at the age of 44. The Veterans Committee elected him to the Hall of Fame in 1946. Iron Man McGinnity didn't did·n't Contraction of did not. didn't did not didn't do enter the major leagues until after six years in the minors, and it was during his minor league days that he first got his nickname. When he wasn't was·n't Contraction of was not. wasn't was not wasn't be playing baseball, McGinnity worked at Union Iron Works Union Iron Works, located in San Francisco, California, was the center of the largest industrial zone in California and the west for four decades at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries. , South McAlester, Okla. He married the proprietor's daughter, Mary, in 1893. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. tradition, a reporter once asked McGinnity what he did during the offseason, and he responded, "I'm an iron man. I work in a foundry A semiconductor manufacturer that makes chips for third parties. It may be a large chip maker that sells its excess manufacturing capacity or one that makes chips exclusively for other companies. ." The nickname stuck. Joe McGinnity's Career Pitching Statistics Year Team Lg W L Pct. G Sh IP 1899 BAL NL 28 15 .651 48 4 380 1900 BRO NL 28 8 .778 45 1 347 1901 BAL AL 26 20 .565 48 1 382 1902 BAL AL 13 10 .565 25 0 199 1902 NY NL 8 8 .500 19 1 153 1903 NY NL 31 20 .608 55 3 434 1904 NY NL 35 8 .814 51 9 408 1905 NY NL 21 15 .583 46 2 320 1906 NY NL 27 12 .692 45 3 340 1907 NY NL 18 18 .500 47 3 310 1908 NY NL 11 7 .611 37 5 186 Totals 246 141 .636 466 32 3,459 Year H R SO BB 1899 358 164 74 93 1900 350 179 93 113 1901 412 219 75 96 1902 219 100 39 46 1902 122 52 67 32 1903 391 162 171 109 1904 307 103 144 86 1905 289 131 125 71 1906 316 127 105 71 1907 320 126 120 58 1908 192 73 55 37 Totals 3,276 1,436 1,068 812 |
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