Monster Card Monday: 1903 Joe McGinnity

1903 McGinnity

If you want a lot of quality innings, you can’t get much better than Joe “Iron Man” McGinnity.  Sent in by APBA Blog writer, Scott Fennessy who blogs incessantly about his deadball replays, this 1903 card is not so much about the pitching grade but also the playing time behind it.

In 1903, Joe McGinnity started 48 games and completed 44 of them.  He ended up with a total of 434 innings for the New York Giants.

Year Tm W L W-L% ERA G GS CG SHO SV IP H BB SO
1903 NYG 31 20 .608 2.43 55 48 44 3 2 434.0 391 109 171
Provided by Baseball-Reference.com: View Original Table
Generated 4/14/2014.

 

Needless to say, those were quality innings.  McGinnity ended up with a 31-20 record and a nice 2.34 ERA.  He only gave up four homers that year and had a 2.3 BB/9 IP rate (actually, one the highest of his career).

On top of all that, Iron Man’s hitting card isn’t too horrible either at 0-7-7-8-8-8-8-9-9.

A fact about Joe McGinnity I did not know:  he hit 40 batters in 1900, his second year in baseball.  That ranks 4th all-time and is the highest since 1900.

thanks Scott!

Thomas Nelshoppen

I am an IT consultant by day and an APBA media mogul by night. My passions are baseball (specifically Illini baseball), photography and of course, APBA. I have been fortunate to be part of the basic game Illowa APBA League since 1980 as well as the BBW Boys of Summer APBA League since 2014. I am slogging through a 1966 NL replay and hope to finish before I die.

One Comment:

  1. One other thing, why is Bob Gibson graded and A&C, and not an A&B for his amazing 1968 season. How much better can a guy pitch.

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