Cleveland Spiders 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	Zimmer	Tebeau	Childs	McGarr	McKean	Burkett	McAleer	Blake
Most Games	Zimmer 943 gms O'Connor 281 gms Snyder 143 gms Criger 120 gms Sugden 66 gms	Tebeau 530 gms Virtue 423 gms Faatz 237 gms O'Connor 170 gms Tucker 127 gms	Childs 1003 gms Stricker 383 gms Quinn 147 gms Tebeau 84 gms Ardner 84 gms	McGarr 413 gms Tebeau 347 gms Wallace 271 gms Smalley 136 gms Davis 101 gms	McKean 1523 gms Lochhead 146 gms Alberts 53 gms Davis 21 gms Gilks 20 gms	Burkett 940 gms Gilks 180 gms Harley 140 gms Twitchell 134 gms McAleer 128 gms	McAleer 798 gms Davis 243 gms Hotaling 224 gms Dowd 147 gms O'Connor 88 gms	Blake 364 gms Ewing 164 gms O'Connor 163 gms Radford 136 gms McAllister 102 gms
1899 (20-134)	Sugden	Tucker	Quinn	Sullivan	Lochhead	Harley	Dowd	McAllister
1898 (81-68)	Criger	Tebeau	Childs	Wallace	McKean	Burkett	McAleer	Blake
1897 (69-62)	Zimmer	Tebeau	Childs	Wallace	McKean	Burkett	Pickering	Sockalexis
1896 (80-48)	Zimmer	Tebeau	Childs	McGarr	McKean	Burkett	McAleer	Blake
1895 (84-46)	Zimmer	Tebeau	Childs	McGarr	McKean	Burkett	McAleer	Blake
1894 (68-61)	Zimmer	Tebeau	Childs	McGarr	McKean	Burkett	McAleer	Blake
1893 (73-55)	Zimmer	Virtue	Childs	McGarr	McKean	Burkett	McAleer	Ewing
1892 (93-56)	Zimmer	Virtue	Childs	Davis	McKean	Burkett	McAleer	O'Connor
1891 (65-74)	Zimmer	Virtue	Childs	Tebeau	McKean	McAleer	Davis	Johnson
1890 (44-88)	Zimmer	Veach	Ardner	Smalley	McKean	Gilks	Davis	Dailey
1889 (61-72)	Zimmer	Faatz	Stricker	Tebeau	McKean	Twitchell	McAleer	Radford
1888 (50-82)	Zimmer	Faatz	Stricker	Alberts	McKean	Gilks	Hotaling	Goodfellow
1887 (39-92)	Snyder	Toy	Stricker	Reccius	McKean	Allen	Hotaling	Carroll
13 years	4 players	6 players	4 players	8 players	2 players	6 players	5 players	10 players

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