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Major League Baseball

Record: 78-75 .510.... 4th in American League
Stadium: Navin Field
Playoffs: Did not Qualify
Attendance: 457,289

Manager - Hughie Jennings

Assistant Coach - Jimmy Burke

Team Leaders

HR: Veach [8]
RBI: Veach [103]
2B: Cobb [44]
SB: Cobb [55]
W: Dauss [17]
SV: Boland [6]
SO: Dauss [102]

Oldest Player: Sam Crawford [37]
Youngest Player: Babe Ellison [21]
Longest Tenure: Sam Crawford [15]

Major League Debuts

Batters: Tony DeFate (Apr 18) Ira Flagstead (Jul 20) Bob Jones (Apr 11) Fred Nicholson (Apr 11) Frank Walker (Sep 6) Archie Yelle (May 12)
Pitchers: Johnny Couch (Apr 11)

2009 Independent League Statistics have been updated.

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Roster of Players

#	Player Name	Pos	Age	B	T	HT	WT	Born	Place	High Level	MLB Years
	Bernie Boland	P	25	R	R	5-8	168	1/21/1892	Rochester, NY	MLB	1915-1921
	George Burns	1B	24	R	R	6-1	180	1/31/1893	Niles, OH	MLB	1914-1929
	Donie Bush	SS	29	B	R	5-6	140	10/8/1887	Indianapolis, IN	MLB	1908-1923
	Ty Cobb	OF	30	L	R	6-1	175	12/18/1886	Narrows, GA	MLB	1905-1928
	Johnny Couch	P	26	L	R	6-0	180	3/31/1891	Vaughn, MT	MLB	1917-1925
	Harry Coveleski	P	31	B	L	6-0	180	4/23/1886	Shamokin, PA	MLB	1907-1918
	Sam Crawford	OF	37	L	L	6-0	190	4/18/1880	Wahoo, NE	MLB	1903-1917
	George Cunningham	P	22	R	R	5-11	185	7/13/1894	Sturgeon Lake, MN	MLB	1916-1921
	Hooks Dauss	P	27	R	R		168	9/22/1889	Indianapolis, IN	MLB	1912-1926
	Tony DeFate	2B	22	R	R	5-8	158	2/22/1895	Kansas City, MO	MLB	1917-1917
	Ben Dyer	3B-SS	24	R	R	5-11	170	2/13/1893	Chicago, IL	MLB	1914-1919
	Howard Ehmke	P	23	R	R	6-3	190	4/24/1894	Silver Creek, NY	MLB	1916-1930
	Babe Ellison	1B-2B	21	R	R	5-11	170	11/15/1895	Rutland, AR	MLB	1916-1920
	Ira Flagstead	OF	23	R	R	5-9	165	9/22/1893	Montague, MI	MLB	1917-1930
	George Harper	OF	25	L	R	5-8	167	6/24/1892	Arlington, KY	MLB	1916-1929
	Harry Heilmann	OF-1B	22	R	R	6-1	195	8/3/1894	San Francisco, CA	MLB	1914-1932
	Bill James	P	30	B	R	6-4	195	1/20/1887	Detroit, MI	MLB	1911-1919
	Bob Jones	3B	27	L	R	6-0	170	12/2/1889	Clayton, CA	MLB	1917-1925
	Deacon Jones	P	24	R	R	6-1	174	12/20/1892	Arcadia, KS	MLB	1916-1918
	Willie Mitchell	P	-	R	L	6-0	176		Pleasant Grove, MS	MLB	1909-1919
	Fred Nicholson	OF	22	R	R	5-10	173	9/1/1894	Honey Grove, TX	MLB	1917-1922
	Tubby Spencer	C	33	R	R	5-10	215	1/26/1884	Oil City, PA	MLB	1905-1918
	Oscar Stanage	C	34	R	R	5-11	190	3/17/1883	Tulare, CA	MLB	1906-1925
	Bobby Veach	OF	29	L	R	5-11	160	6/29/1888	Island, KY	MLB	1912-1925
	Ossie Vitt	3B	27	R	R	5-10	150	1/4/1890	San Francisco, CA	MLB	1912-1921
	Frank Walker	OF	22	R	R	5-11	165	9/22/1894	Enoree, SC	MLB	1917-1925
	Archie Yelle	C	25	R	R		170	6/11/1892	Saginaw, MI	MLB	1917-1919
	Ralph Young	2B	27	B	R	5-5	165	9/19/1889	Philadelphia, PA	MLB	1913-1922