Philadelphia Athletics 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	Robinson	Stovey	Stricker	Lyons	McGarr	Birchall	Welch	Coleman
Most Games	Robinson 344 gms Milligan 213 gms O'Brien 213 gms Townsend 70 gms Cross 55 gms	Stovey 401 gms Larkin 276 gms O'Brien 142 gms Milligan 85 gms Latham 74 gms	Bierbauer 510 gms Stricker 373 gms Shafer 69 gms Conroy 42 gms Larkin 27 gms	Lyons 498 gms Corey 230 gms Gleason 77 gms O'Brien 49 gms Bradley 44 gms	McGarr 208 gms Houck 201 gms Fennelly 153 gms Gleason 121 gms Moynahan 95 gms	Stovey 304 gms Larkin 303 gms Birchall 221 gms Purcell 191 gms Mansell 16 gms	Welch 363 gms Larkin 123 gms Stovey 108 gms Greer 69 gms Blakiston 66 gms	Knight 252 gms Poorman 232 gms Coleman 191 gms Shafer 170 gms Purcell 153 gms
1890 (54-78)	Robinson	O'Brien	Shafer	Lyons	Conroy	Purcell	Welch	Shafer
1889 (75-58)	Robinson	Larkin	Bierbauer	Lyons	Fennelly	Stovey	Welch	Purcell
1888 (81-52)	Robinson	Larkin	Bierbauer	Lyons	Gleason	Stovey	Welch	Poorman
1887 (64-69)	Robinson	Milligan	Bierbauer	Lyons	McGarr	Larkin	Mann	Poorman
1886 (63-72)	Robinson	Stovey	Bierbauer	Gleason	McGarr	Larkin	Greer	Coleman
1885 (55-57)	Milligan	Stovey	Stricker	Corey	Houck	Purcell	Larkin	Coleman
1884 (61-46)	Milligan	Stovey	Stricker	Corey	Houck	Birchall	Larkin	Knight
1883 (66-32)	O'Brien	Stovey	Stricker	Bradley	Moynahan	Birchall	Blakiston	Knight
1882 (41-34)	O'Brien	Latham	Stricker	Mann	Say	Birchall	Richmond	Blakiston
9 years	3 players	5 players	3 players	5 players	7 players	4 players	6 players	6 players

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