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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	Bennett	Powell	Dunlap	Farrell	Rowe	Wood	Hanlon	Thompson
Most Games	Bennett 536 gms Ganzel 124 gms Trott 63 gms McGuire 34 gms Briody 33 gms	Brouthers 373 gms Powell 236 gms Scott 148 gms McQuery 70 gms Brown 27 gms	Richardson 164 gms Dunlap 116 gms Crane 106 gms Gerhardt 79 gms Quest 76 gms	White 355 gms Farrell 253 gms Whitney 80 gms Donnelly 56 gms Bennett 27 gms	Rowe 339 gms Houck 176 gms Meinke 51 gms McGeary 33 gms Phillips 33 gms	Wood 444 gms Twitchell 176 gms Richardson 138 gms Manning 36 gms Bennett 25 gms	Hanlon 812 gms Scheffler 23 gms Twitchell 10 gms Wiedman 8 gms Bennett 6 gms	Thompson 368 gms Knight 166 gms Wiedman 84 gms Campau 70 gms Dorgan 38 gms
1888 (68-63)	Bennett	Brouthers	Richardson	White	Rowe	Twitchell	Hanlon	Campau
1887 (79-45)	Ganzel	Brouthers	Dunlap	White	Rowe	Richardson	Hanlon	Thompson
1886 (87-36)	Bennett	Brouthers	Dunlap	White	Rowe	Richardson	Hanlon	Thompson
1885 (41-67)	Bennett	McQuery	Crane	Donnelly	Phillips	Wood	Hanlon	Thompson
1884 (28-84)	Bennett	Scott	Geiss	Farrell	Meinke	Wood	Hanlon	Wiedman
1883 (40-58)	Bennett	Powell	Trott	Farrell	Houck	Wood	Hanlon	Mansell
1882 (42-41)	Bennett	Powell	Troy	Farrell	McGeary	Wood	Hanlon	Knight
1881 (41-43)	Bennett	Powell	Gerhardt	Whitney	Houck	Wood	Hanlon	Knight
8 years	2 players	4 players	7 players	4 players	5 players	3 players	1 players	5 players

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