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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	Murphy	Brouthers	Stricker	Nash	Irwin	Richardson	Brown	Duffy
Most Games	Murphy 171 gms Kelly 60 gms Farrell 37 gms Swett 34 gms Cotter 5 gms	Brouthers 253 gms Farrell 4 gms Richardson 4 gms Buffinton 4 gms Kelly 4 gms	Stricker 139 gms Quinn 130 gms Murphy 0 gms Joyce 0 gms Kilroy 0 gms	Nash 129 gms Farrell 66 gms Joyce 64 gms Richardson 9 gms Duffy 3 gms	Radford 131 gms Irwin 102 gms Kelly 27 gms Richardson 10 gms Murphy 2 gms	Richardson 181 gms McGeachey 38 gms Farrell 20 gms Irwin 9 gms Duffy 7 gms	Brown 265 gms Murphy 3 gms Johnston 2 gms Kelly 2 gms Duffy 2 gms	Duffy 118 gms Stovey 116 gms Irwin 9 gms Buffinton 6 gms Gumbert 5 gms
1891 (93-42)	Murphy	Brouthers	Stricker	Farrell	Radford	Richardson	Brown	Duffy
1890 (81-48)	Murphy	Brouthers	Quinn	Nash	Irwin	Richardson	Brown	Stovey
2 years	1 players	1 players	2 players	2 players	2 players	1 players	1 players	2 players

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