Philadelphia Athletics Yearly Starters

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Year and record in Bold indicates they won pennant.

Shading is not used to differentiate the players' performances. It is merely used to quickly illustrate long strings of games/years played by a single player. When a player in the column changes, so does the color of the shading.

Most Common Starters

Year	C	1B	2B	3B	SS	LF	CF	RF
Most Years	Malone	Sutton	Fisler	Meyerle	Force	Hall	Eggler	Coon
Most Games	Malone 20 gms Coon 18 gms Ritterson 14 gms Bushong 5 gms Paul 3 gms	Sutton 29 gms Fisler 14 gms Knight 13 gms Zettlein 7 gms Fouser 1 gms	Fisler 21 gms Sutton 15 gms Fouser 14 gms Knight 6 gms Coon 4 gms	Meyerle 49 gms Sutton 8 gms Coon 4 gms Force 2 gms Ritterson 1 gms	Force 60 gms Malone 1 gms Fisler 1 gms Paul 0 gms Hall 0 gms	Hall 59 gms Eggler 1 gms Paul 0 gms Malone 0 gms Fisler 0 gms	Eggler 37 gms Fisler 15 gms Knight 3 gms Coon 2 gms Ritterson 2 gms	Coon 29 gms Fisler 9 gms Knight 6 gms Fouser 6 gms Sutton 4 gms
1876 (14-45)	Malone	Sutton	Fisler	Meyerle	Force	Hall	Eggler	Coon
1 years	1 players	1 players	1 players	1 players	1 players	1 players	1 players	1 players

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