Iron man mcginnity baseball biography

One could make a strong case for Joe McGinnity being the most durable pitcher in baseball history.

Iron man mcginnity baseball biography

In just 10 seasons in the major leagues, “Iron Man” McGinnity worked 3,441 innings and won 246 games. During the month of August in 1903, he pitched and won both ends of a doubleheader three times; he accomplished the feat two other times in his career.

He pitched another 3,821 innings and won another 235 games in a minor-league career both before and after that one glorious decade in the majors.

And to his dying day in 1929, Joe McGinnity couldn’t quite fathom why so many other pitchers weren’t just as durable as he was.

In May 1926, less than a year after throwing his final pitch in an organized game, he was serving as the pitching coach of the Brooklyn Dodgers.

He lamented that major-league teams sometimes felt the need to have as many as 10 pitchers on their rosters. He thought they really only needed four or five.

“This policy has had a psychological effect u