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Joe McGinnity Mansion, McAlester, Oklahoma

I am told this mansion was built by a baseball player who had it shipped in from Germany. It's been abandoned for years, but is now being rennovated.

 

From Wikipedia - "Joseph Jerome McGinnity (March 20, 1871 - November 14, 1929), nicknamed Iron Man, was an American right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball at the turn of the 20th century."

 

McGinnity apparently worked for the Union Iron Foundry in South McAlester during his off season, and in 1893 married the bosses daughter.

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