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McGinnity sold his interests in the Indians to Ebbets and Ed McKeever and purchased the Tacoma Tigers of the Class-B Northwestern League for $ 8, 500 ($ in current dollar terms ), spending another $ 50, 000 ($ in current dollar terms ) on the franchise in renovating the stadium.
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McGinnity and sold
McGinnity sold stock in the team in 1915 in order to afford operating expenses.
McGinnity sold the Tigers and purchased the Butte Miners of the Northwestern League in 1916, serving as player-manager and bringing with him several players from Tacoma.
McGinnity and Indians
McGinnity purchased the Newark Indians of the Class-A Eastern League ( EL ) for $ 50, 000 ($ in current dollar terms ) in 1909 from Frank J. Farrell.
When McGinnity could not retain manager Harry Wolverton, he stepped in as player-manager for the Indians.
McGinnity played for and managed the Indians through the 1912.
McGinnity and Ebbets
Former Brooklyn Grooms player George Pinkney, who lived in Peoria during his retirement, saw McGinnity pitch, and contacted Brooklyn owner Charles Ebbets to recommend he sign McGinnity.
McGinnity and Ed
* April 23 – the Hall of Fame Committee clears the deadlock at the top of the writers ' ballot by selecting 11 new inductees, primarily from the popular candidates of the 1900s and 1910s: Jesse Burkett, Frank Chance, Jack Chesbro, Johnny Evers, Clark Griffith, Tommy McCarthy, Joe McGinnity, Eddie Plank, Joe Tinker, Rube Waddell and Ed Walsh.
That year, the Veterans Committee elected eleven players: Chesbro, Jesse Burkett, Frank Chance, Johnny Evers, Clark Griffith, Tommy McCarthy, Joe McGinnity, Eddie Plank, Joe Tinker, Rube Waddell, and Ed Walsh.
Also as in 1945 the Old Timers Committee responded by electing the biggest class yet, then ten and now eleven people: Jesse Burkett, Frank Chance, Jack Chesbro, Johnny Evers, Clark Griffith, Tommy McCarthy, Joe McGinnity, Eddie Plank, Joe Tinker, Rube Waddell, and Ed Walsh.
McGinnity and purchased
Due to insolvency, the Brooklyn Superbas purchased the Orioles after the 1898 season and transferred Kelley, Hanlon, Keeler, Joe McGinnity, and Hughie Jennings to Brooklyn.
McGinnity and Tigers
With the formation of the American League ( AL ) as a competitor to the NL, and rumors that the AL's Detroit Tigers were interested in McGinnity, Brooklyn offered McGinnity a $ 5, 000 contract ($ in current dollar terms ) to stay with Brooklyn.
During a brawl that erupted during a game against the Detroit Tigers on August 21, 1901, McGinnity spat on umpire Tom Connolly.
McGinnity and Class-B
Pat Wright, who managed Springfield's semi-professional team, was named manager of the Peoria Distillers of the Class-B Western Association, and he signed McGinnity to Peoria for the 1898 season, marking his return to professional baseball.
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.
McGinnity and League
He finished the season pitching with " Iron Man " Joe McGinnity for Newark in the Eastern League, and never played another major league game.
On the day they owned the franchise, they released the best players on the Orioles from their contracts so that they could be signed by National League teams: Kelley and Cy Seymour signed with the Reds, while McGinnity, Roger Bresnahan, Dan McGann, and Jack Cronin signed with the Giants.
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 ).
Jimmie Manning, manager of the Southern League franchise in Savannah, Georgia, became manager of the Kansas City Blues of the Class-A Western League for the 1894 season, and signed McGinnity to pitch for the Blues.
McGinnity claimed that he would pitch in the California League, as he had received a salary offer for "$ 1, 000 ($ in current dollar terms ) more than got in New York ".
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.
McGinnity and for
Former teammate Wilbert Robinson, then manager of the Brooklyn Robins, hired Kelley and McGinnity to join his coaching staff for the 1926 MLB season.
McGinnity continued to pitch in the minor leagues, eventually retiring from baseball for good at the age of 54.
An outfielder, McGinnity substituted for his team's pitcher in an 1888 game, which he won.
McGinnity also played baseball for the local team.
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.
As McGinnity continued to struggle for Kansas City, he requested his release in June.
McGinnity also pitched locally for semi-professional teams in Springfield and Decatur, receiving a salary between $ 1 to $ 3 ( between $ to $ in current dollar terms ) for each game.
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.
Armed with " Old Sal ", McGinnity compiled a 9 – 4 record for Peoria, allowing only 118 hits and 60 walks while striking out 74 batters in 142 innings.
He signed McGinnity in the spring of 1899 for $ 150 a month ($ in current dollar terms ).
Hanlon assigned McGinnity to the Orioles for the 1899 season after seeing his unorthodox pitching delivery and slow pitching speed.
McGinnity posted a 28 – 8 record for Brooklyn in the 1900 season.
McGinnity was arrested for the incident and permanently suspended by AL president Ban Johnson, who wanted there to be no fighting in AL games.
McGinnity compiled a 26 – 20 record for the 1901 Orioles, and his 48 games, 39 complete games, and 382 innings pitched led the AL.
With the Giants for the 1903 season, McGinnity won 31 games.
Wins by McGinnity and fellow pitcher Christy Mathewson accounted for 73 % of the Giants ' winning games in 1903, setting an MLB record for a pitching tandem.
McGinnity and $
After the season, McGinnity and some of his teammates threatened to quit the Giants, accusing Brush, now the Giants owner, of going back on a promise to pay the team a monetary bonus for having finished among the top three teams in the NL, as well as a share of the gate receipts from exhibition games, for which they were paid $ 56. 35 ($ in current dollar terms ), though Brush allegedly had made over $ 200, 000 ($ in current dollar terms ).
In June 1908, Brush put McGinnity on waivers, hoping another owner would relieve him of McGinnity's $ 5, 000 salary ($ in current dollar terms ).
McGinnity and 8
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.
McGinnity and 500
Including his time in the minor leagues, McGinnity won close to 500 games as a professional ballplayer.
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