Players
Some of the prominent players were:
- Ben Boyd
- Frank Grant, infield
- Abe Harrison, shortstop
- Andrew Jackson
- Oscar Jackson
- William Jackson
- John Nelson, pitcher
- William Selden, pitcher
- Arthur Thomas
- Sol White, infield
- Clarence Williams, catcher
- George Williams, infielder and captain
Among them Boyd, Harrison, Selden, Thomas, Williams, and Williams were members of the team by 1886, its first full season.
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Famous quotes containing the word players:
“The players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing, whatsoever he penned, he never blotted out [a] line. My answer hath been, “Would he had blotted a thousand.””
—Ben Jonson (c. 1572–1637)
“Will you see the players well bestowed? Do you hear, let them
be well used, for they are the abstracts and brief chronicles of the time. After your death you were better have a bad epitaph than their ill report while you live.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
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—Don Delillo (b. 1926)