Joe McGinnity
date: label: date made
content: 1909-1911
name: label: maker
content: American Tobacco Company
notes: label: Description
content: Piedmont Cigarettes T206 baseball card featuring Joe McGinnity of the Newark Indians.
label: Description
content: Pitcher Joe McGinnity served as owner and player-manager of the Eastern League’s Newark Indians fom 1909-1912. Nicknamed “Iron Man” for his working in iron foundries during offseasons, McGinnity had previously played Major League Baseball for the National League Baltimore Orioles (1899), Brooklyn Superbas (1900), the American League Baltimore Orioles (1901-1902) and New York Giants (1902-1908). A five-time wins leader in the Majors, the right-hander won a World Series with the Giants in 1905. Overall, “Iron Man” had a career MLB win-loss record of 245-142 (with seven 20-win seasons), 1,068 strikeouts and 2.66 earned run average.
label: Description
content: McGinnity was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1946.
label: Description
content: T206 is a modern collector’s designation for a set of cards found in American Tobacco Company products between 1909-1911. The cards had different backs depending on which of the 16 American Tobacco Company brands in which they were found.
place: label: Associated Place
content: United States: New Jersey, Newark
topic: label: web subject
content: Sports
label: name of sport
content: Baseball
label: level of sport
content: Professional
setName: label: See more items in
content: Culture and the Arts: Sport and Leisure
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2000.3001.034
label: nonaccession number
content: 2000.3001
label: catalog number
content: 2000.3001.034
objectType: label: Object Name
content: card, baseball
label: Object Name
content: baseball card
label: Object Name
content: cigarette card
label: Object Name
content: card, cigarette
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 3/4 in x 1 1/2 in; 6.985 cm x 3.81 cm