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Major League Baseball

Record: 51-103 .331.... 8th in National League
Stadium: Forbes Field
Playoffs: Did not Qualify
Attendance: 192,807

Manager - Hugo Bedzek, Nixey Callahan, Honus Wagner

Team Leaders

HR: Fischer [3]
RBI: Carey [51]
2B: Carey [21]
SB: Carey [46]
W: Cooper [17]
SV: Jacobs [2]
SO: Cooper [99]

Oldest Player: Honus Wagner [43]
Youngest Player: Howdy Caton [20]
Longest Tenure: Honus Wagner [15]

Major League Debuts

Batters: Fred Blackwell (Sep 25) Tony Boeckel (Jul 23) Howdy Caton (Sep 17) Adam Debus (Jul 14) Don Flinn (Sep 2) Ray Miller (Apr 14) Jake Pitler (May 30) Arch Reilly (Jun 1) Ben Shaw (Apr 11) Red Smith (Sep 17) Chuck Ward (Apr 11) Bill Webb (Sep 17) Harry Wolfe (Apr 15)
Pitchers: Hal Carlson (Apr 13) Elmer Ponder (Sep 18)

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
	Jesse Altenburg	OF	24	L	R	5-9	158	1/2/1893	Ashley, MI	MLB	1916-1917
	Doug Baird	3B	25	R	R		148	9/27/1891	St. Charles, MO	MLB	1915-1920
	Carson Bigbee	OF	22	L	R	5-9	157	3/31/1895	Waterloo, OR	MLB	1916-1926
	Fred Blackwell	C	25	L	R		160	9/7/1891	Bowling Green, KY	MLB	1917-1919
	Tony Boeckel	3B	24	R	R	5-10	175	8/25/1892	Los Angeles, CA	MLB	1917-1923
	Bunny Brief	1B	24	R	R	6-0	185	7/3/1892	Remus, MI	MLB	1912-1917
	Max Carey	OF	27	B	R		170	1/11/1890	Terre Haute, IN	MLB	1910-1929
	Hal Carlson	P	25	R	R	6-0	180	5/17/1892	Rockford, IL	MLB	1917-1930
	Howdy Caton	SS	20	R	R	5-6	165	7/16/1896	Zanesville, OH	MLB	1917-1920
	Wilbur Cooper	P	25	R	L	5-11	175	2/24/1892	Bearsville, WV	MLB	1912-1926
	Adam Debus	SS-3B	24	R	R		150	10/7/1892	Chicago, IL	MLB	1917-1917
	Bill Evans	P	23	R	R	6-0	175	2/10/1894	Reidsville, NC	MLB	1916-1919
	William Fischer	C	26	L	R	6-0	174	3/2/1891	New York, NY	MLB	1913-1917
	Don Flinn	OF	24	R	R	6-1	185	11/17/1892	Bluff Dale, TX	MLB	1917-1917
	Billy Gleason	2B	22	R	R	5-6	157	9/6/1894	Chicago, IL	MLB	1916-1921
	Burleigh Grimes	P	23	R	R	5-10	175	8/9/1893	Emerald, WI	MLB	1916-1934
	Bill Hinchman	OF	34	R	R	5-11	190	4/4/1883	Philadelphia, PA	MLB	1905-1920
	Charlie Jackson	OF	23	L	L	5-9	150	2/7/1894	Granite City, IL	MLB	1915-1917
	Elmer Jacobs	P	24	R	R	6-0	165	8/10/1892	Salem, MO	MLB	1914-1927
	George Kelly	1B-2B	21	R	R	6-4	190	9/10/1895	San Francisco, CA	MLB	1915-1932
	Lee King	OF	24	R	R	5-8	160	12/26/1892	Hundred, WV	MLB	1916-1922
	Al Mamaux	P	23	R	R	6-0	168	5/30/1894	Pittsburgh, PA	MLB	1913-1924
	Alex McCarthy	2B-SS	29	R	R	5-9	150	5/12/1888	Chicago, IL	MLB	1910-1917
	Frank Miller	P	31	R	R	6-0	188	5/13/1886	Allegan, MI	MLB	1913-1923
	Ray Miller	1B	29	L	L	5-10	168	2/12/1888	Pittsburgh, PA	MLB	1917-1917
	Fritz Mollwitz	1B	27	R	R	6-2	170	6/16/1890	Coburg, GE	MLB	1913-1919
	Jake Pitler	2B	23	R	R	5-8	150	4/22/1894	New York, NY	MLB	1917-1918
	Elmer Ponder	P	24	R	R	6-0	178	6/26/1893	Reed, OK	MLB	1917-1921
	Arch Reilly	3B	25	R	R	5-10	163	8/17/1891	Alton, IL	MLB	1917-1917
	Walter Schmidt	C	30	R	R	5-9	159	3/20/1887	Coal Hill, AR	MLB	1916-1925
	Frank Schulte	OF	34	L	R	5-11	170	9/17/1882	Cohocton, NY	MLB	1904-1918
	Ben Shaw	1B-C	24	R	R	5-11	190	6/18/1893	LaCenter, KY	MLB	1917-1918
	Red Smith	C	25	R	R	5-8	165	4/11/1892	Logansport, IN	MLB	1917-1918
	Bob Steele	P	23	L	R	5-10	175	1/5/1894	Cassburn, ON	MLB	1916-1919
	Bill Wagner	C	23	R	R	6-0	187	1/2/1894	Jesup, IA	MLB	1914-1918
	Honus Wagner	SS	43	R	R	5-11	200	2/24/1874	Chartiers, PA	MLB	1903-1917
	Chuck Ward	SS-3B	22	R	R		170	7/30/1894	St. Louis, MO	MLB	1917-1922
	Hooks Warner	3B	23	L	R		170	5/22/1894	Del Rio, TX	MLB	1916-1921
	Bill Webb	2B-SS	22	R	R	5-10	161	6/25/1895	Chicago, IL	MLB	1917-1917
	Joe Wilhoit	OF	31	L	R	6-2	175	12/20/1885	Hiawatha, KS	MLB	1916-1919
	Harry Wolfe	SS-OF	26	R	R	5-8	160	11/24/1890		MLB	1917-1917