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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	Wilson	Beck	Zeider	Zeider	Tinker	Mann	Zwilling	Flack
Most Games	Wilson 219 gms Fischer 80 gms Block 34 gms Clemens 17 gms Smith 0 gms	Beck 274 gms Jackson 40 gms Weiss 29 gms Zwilling 3 gms Smith 0 gms	Farrell 225 gms Zeider 83 gms Fritz 7 gms Tinker 5 gms McGuire 3 gms	Zeider 147 gms Fritz 116 gms Wisterzil 48 gms Pechous 18 gms Hauser 6 gms	Tinker 141 gms Smith 95 gms Stanley 40 gms Doolin 24 gms Zeider 22 gms	Flack 173 gms Mann 94 gms Wickland 35 gms Walsh 21 gms Hanford 10 gms	Zwilling 301 gms Mann 7 gms Jackson 3 gms Wickland 1 gms Hanford 1 gms	Wickland 149 gms Flack 104 gms Mann 33 gms Hanford 32 gms Walsh 8 gms
1915 (86-66)	Wilson	Beck	Zeider	Fritz	Smith	Mann	Zwilling	Flack
1914 (87-67)	Wilson	Beck	Farrell	Zeider	Tinker	Flack	Zwilling	Wickland
2 years	1 players	1 players	2 players	2 players	2 players	2 players	1 players	2 players

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