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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	White	Gould	Barnes	Schafer	Wright	Leonard	Wright	Manning
Most Games	White 189 gms McVey 107 gms Birdsall 19 gms O'Rourke 13 gms Schafer 2 gms	O'Rourke 110 gms Gould 74 gms McVey 55 gms Manning 31 gms Latham 16 gms	Barnes 235 gms Leonard 29 gms Beals 20 gms Jackson 14 gms Barrows 1 gms	Schafer 243 gms O'Rourke 27 gms Barnes 13 gms Leonard 9 gms McVey 2 gms	Wright 261 gms Barnes 17 gms Leonard 16 gms Jackson 1 gms Wright 1 gms	Leonard 207 gms Hall 20 gms Cone 18 gms Schafer 18 gms Barrows 13 gms	Wright 176 gms Spalding 45 gms O'Rourke 44 gms McVey 28 gms Hall 21 gms	Manning 69 gms McVey 65 gms White 43 gms Rogers 38 gms Birdsall 33 gms
1875 (71-8)	White	McVey	Barnes	Schafer	Wright	Leonard	O'Rourke	Manning
1874 (52-18)	White	O'Rourke	Barnes	Schafer	Wright	Leonard	Wright	McVey
1873 (43-16)	White	O'Rourke	Barnes	Schafer	Wright	Leonard	Wright	Addy
1872 (39-8)	McVey	Gould	Barnes	Schafer	Wright	Leonard	Wright	Rogers
1871 (20-10)	McVey	Gould	Barnes	Schafer	Wright	Cone	Wright	Birdsall
5 years	2 players	3 players	1 players	1 players	1 players	2 players	2 players	5 players

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