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	Milligan	Larkin	Hallman	Mulvey	Shindle	Wood	Griffin	Fogarty
Most Games	Milligan 146 gms Cross 92 gms Hallman 26 gms McKeough 14 gms Matthews 0 gms	Farrar 127 gms Larkin 111 gms Milligan 35 gms Buffinton 3 gms Matthews 0 gms	Hallman 155 gms Pickett 100 gms Shannon 19 gms Cross 1 gms Milligan 0 gms	Mulvey 233 gms Cross 24 gms Hallman 10 gms Wood 7 gms Shindle 2 gms	Corcoran 133 gms Shindle 130 gms Wood 5 gms Clymer 3 gms Hallman 2 gms	Wood 250 gms Sanders 10 gms Larkin 5 gms Griffin 4 gms Bowman 2 gms	Griffin 100 gms Corkhill 73 gms McTamany 57 gms Fogarty 23 gms McGeachey 12 gms	Fogarty 68 gms Cross 53 gms McGeachey 34 gms Hallman 32 gms Sanders 20 gms
1891 (73-66)	Milligan	Larkin	Hallman	Mulvey	Corcoran	Wood	Corkhill	Cross
1890 (68-63)	Milligan	Farrar	Pickett	Mulvey	Shindle	Wood	Griffin	Fogarty
2 years	1 players	2 players	2 players	1 players	2 players	1 players	2 players	2 players

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