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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	Krieg	Schoeneck	Hengel	Householder	Matthias	Gardner	Wheeler	Ellick
Most Games	Krieg 52 gms Suck 28 gms Gross 15 gms Baldwin 1 gms Richardson 0 gms	Schoeneck 90 gms Wyman 2 gms Krieg 1 gms Richardson 0 gms Fisher 0 gms	Hengel 19 gms Strief 15 gms McLaughlin 14 gms McGarr 13 gms Briggs 12 gms	Householder 41 gms Foley 19 gms Battin 18 gms Gardner 8 gms Leary 3 gms	Matthias 36 gms Ellick 33 gms Suck 15 gms Householder 3 gms Baker 3 gms	Householder 40 gms Gardner 15 gms Krieg 13 gms Horan 6 gms Gross 6 gms	Wheeler 37 gms Briggs 28 gms Suck 10 gms Krieg 6 gms Horan 4 gms	Ellick 54 gms Gardner 14 gms Baker 11 gms Briggs 6 gms Gross 3 gms
1884 (41-50)	Krieg	Schoeneck	Hengel	Householder	Matthias	Gardner	Wheeler	Ellick
1 years	1 players	1 players	1 players	1 players	1 players	1 players	1 players	1 players

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