Joe McGinnity Scrapbook : scrapbook, 1909 - 1929.

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Joe McGinnity Scrapbook : scrapbook, 1909 - 1929.

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A collection of newspaper clippings, photographs and signed membership cards, release forms and ticket stubs. The articles are primarily since his retirement from major league baseball but the photographs span his whole career. Scrapbook seems to have many personal items including his wife's death.

1 scrapbook (345mm x 270mm x 35mm)

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McGinnity, Joe, 1871-1929

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Joe McGinnity was nicknamed Iron Man because he worked in a foundry during the offseason, but the moniker eventually came to describe the way he pitched. He was famous for starting both ends of a doubleheader, and in 1903, he pulled off the feat three times in a single month, winning all six games. McGinnity was a key cog of pennant-winning teams with Brooklyn in 1900 and the New York Giants in 1905. Following his Major League career, he pitched in the Minors until he was 54 years old, retiring ...