FEDERAL BASEBALL UNION
POSITIONAL STRENGTH OVERVIEW BY POSITIONS
09/17/1896
 
CATCHERS
Team Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
Detroit Spartans Grover Briggs 1st 4th(tied) 1st
New York Titans August Riehl 2nd 4th(tied) 2nd
Washington Columbians Jack Hazlett 3rd 4th(tied) 3rd
Philadelphia Blue Caps Tommy Keegan 4th 4th(tied) 6th
Chicago Zephyrs Alton Sutter 5th Morris Trimble 2nd 4th
Cleveland Bears Harlan Selkirk 6th Milt Lederman 1st 5th
Pittsburgh Vulcans Alonzo Kraft 7th 4th(tied) 7th
Buffalo Bulls Delbert Collins 8th 4th(tied) 9th
Boston Resolutes Cabbage Kearns 9th Jeremiah Dinan 3rd 8th
Cincinnati Satraps Emil Wack 10th 4th(tied) 10th
Louisville Stallions Rollie Daniels 11th 4th(tied) 11th
Brooklyn Unions Hyman Feldman 12th 4th(tied) 12th
FIRST BASEMEN
Team Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
Buffalo Bulls Hod Vickers 1st 5th(tied) 2nd
Washington Columbians Clark Grimsley 2nd 5th(tied) 3rd
New York Titans Clarence McKee 3rd 5th(tied) 4th
Cleveland Bears Norris Halford 4th 5th(tied) 5th
Louisville Stallions Carl Hankins 5th 5th(tied) 6th
Cincinnati Satraps Harvey Brown 6th Levi Krause 1st 1st
Chicago Zephyrs Pete Dillon 7th 5th(tied) 10th
Detroit Spartans Norris Hobart 8th Reuben Mott 2nd 7th
Pittsburgh Vulcans Milton Schrader 9th 5th(tied) 11th
Philadelphia Blue Caps Emory Lawton 10th Cal Phipps 3rd(tied) 8th
Brooklyn Unions Leon Farber 11th Eli Abrams 3rd(tied) 9th
Boston Resolutes 12th 5th(tied) 12th
SECOND BASEMEN
Team Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
Boston Resolutes Hugh Kilgannon 1st 2nd(tied) 1st
Detroit Spartans Si Moeller 2nd 2nd(tied) 3rd
Pittsburgh Vulcans Burton Tolliver 3rd 2nd(tied) 4th
Cleveland Bears Wally Pomeroy 4th 2nd(tied) 5th
New York Titans Walter Raab 5th George Rennie 1st 2nd
Philadelphia Blue Caps Nate Durfee 6th 2nd(tied) 6th
Chicago Zephyrs Miguel Herrera 7th 2nd(tied) 7th
Brooklyn Unions Alonzo Goodwin 8th 2nd(tied) 8th
Cincinnati Satraps Chester Sanders 9th 2nd(tied) 9th
Washington Columbians Jules Fullerton 10th 2nd(tied) 10th
Louisville Stallions James Harkness 11th 2nd(tied) 11th
Buffalo Bulls 12th 2nd(tied) 12th
THIRD BASEMEN
Team Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
New York Titans Alonzo Grider 1st Patsy McEvoy 1st 1st
Pittsburgh Vulcans Book Gorman 2nd 2nd(tied) 2nd
Detroit Spartans Virgil Ashburn 3rd 2nd(tied) 3rd
Cincinnati Satraps Rudy Feistl 4th 2nd(tied) 4th
Washington Columbians Jefferson Hanley 5th 2nd(tied) 5th
Chicago Zephyrs Delbert Rankin 6th 2nd(tied) 6th
Brooklyn Unions Ephraim Meers 7th 2nd(tied) 7th
Philadelphia Blue Caps Harmon Bixby 8th 2nd(tied) 8th
Boston Resolutes Charles Hoyle 9th 2nd(tied) 9th
Cleveland Bears Isaac Daugherty 10th 2nd(tied) 10th
Louisville Stallions Wilbur Santee 11th 2nd(tied) 11th
Buffalo Bulls Abel Sullivan 12th 2nd(tied) 12th
SHORTSTOPS
Team Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
Louisville Stallions Sam Grant 1st Sam Creel 1st 1st
New York Titans George Teller 2nd 4th(tied) 2nd
Detroit Spartans Ernest Reinhart 3rd 4th(tied) 3rd
Philadelphia Blue Caps Joe Hanrahan 4th 4th(tied) 4th
Boston Resolutes Eben Shepley 5th 4th(tied) 5th
Chicago Zephyrs Bart Connelly 6th Virgil Dobbins 2nd 6th
Cleveland Bears Corky Kittering 7th 4th(tied) 7th
Buffalo Bulls Elias Pomeroy 8th 4th(tied) 8th
Cincinnati Satraps Simon Lehmann 9th 4th(tied) 9th
Pittsburgh Vulcans Thomas Rooney 10th 4th(tied) 10th
Washington Columbians Cyrus Booker 11th 4th(tied) 12th
Brooklyn Unions Charlie Vinson 12th Abel Morris 3rd 11th
LEFT FIELDERS
Team Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
Washington Columbians Quincy Albright 1st Clyde Driscoll 1st 1st
New York Titans Myron Cogswell 2nd 2nd(tied) 2nd
Cincinnati Satraps Nelson Uxley 3rd 2nd(tied) 3rd
Boston Resolutes Red Moxley 4th 2nd(tied) 4th
Brooklyn Unions Lester Swail 5th 2nd(tied) 5th
Philadelphia Blue Caps Len McClelland 6th 2nd(tied) 6th
Chicago Zephyrs Horace Melvin 7th 2nd(tied) 7th
Detroit Spartans Ellis Biddle 8th 2nd(tied) 8th
Cleveland Bears Dutch Lenkman 9th 2nd(tied) 9th
Louisville Stallions Dennis Garherty 10th 2nd(tied) 10th
Pittsburgh Vulcans Luther Bixler 11th 2nd(tied) 11th
Buffalo Bulls 12th 2nd(tied) 12th
CENTER FIELDERS
Team Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
Detroit Spartans Buck Follis 1st 1st(tied) 1st
Cleveland Bears Roscoe Dunlap 2nd 1st(tied) 2nd
Cincinnati Satraps Fritz Hoffman 3rd 1st(tied) 3rd
Louisville Stallions Julius Nettles 4th 1st(tied) 4th
Pittsburgh Vulcans Lloyd Trask 5th 1st(tied) 5th
Chicago Zephyrs Charlie Crow 6th 1st(tied) 6th
New York Titans Edgar Stilton 7th 1st(tied) 7th
Brooklyn Unions Otto Redfield 8th 1st(tied) 8th
Boston Resolutes Seamus McGroarty 9th 1st(tied) 9th
Buffalo Bulls Delbert Haskell 10th 1st(tied) 10th
Washington Columbians Vernon Chilton 11th 1st(tied) 11th
Philadelphia Blue Caps Howard McIntee 12th 1st(tied) 12th
RIGHT FIELDERS
Team Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
New York Titans Bunny Throckmorton 1st 2nd(tied) 1st
Pittsburgh Vulcans Dutch Oberholtzer 2nd 2nd(tied) 2nd
Brooklyn Unions Con Stapleton 3rd 2nd(tied) 3rd
Washington Columbians Dan O'Connor 4th 2nd(tied) 4th
Chicago Zephyrs Eli Ziegler 5th 2nd(tied) 5th
Cleveland Bears Ezra Young 6th 2nd(tied) 6th
Cincinnati Satraps Joe Dunphy 7th 2nd(tied) 7th
Louisville Stallions Edgar Dobbins 8th 2nd(tied) 9th
Detroit Spartans Mort Tewksbury 9th 2nd(tied) 10th
Boston Resolutes Amos Carr 10th Edwin Oliver 1st 8th
Philadelphia Blue Caps Pete Knowles 11th 2nd(tied) 11th
Buffalo Bulls Abel Ashby 12th 2nd(tied) 12th
STARTING PITCHERS
Team Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
Boston Resolutes Rufus Barrell 1st Lemuel Driscoll 7th 1st
Cincinnati Satraps Simon Snow 2nd Irving Bauman 6th 4th
New York Titans Alphonse Dupray 3rd Bricks Rosenbaum 8th 5th
Louisville Stallions Albert Rittenhose 4th Herman Welty 9th 8th
Chicago Zephyrs Hank Jenson 5th Edward Thompson 5th 7th
Pittsburgh Vulcans Sy Gates 6th Irving Cutter 1st(tied) 2nd
Cleveland Bears Ezra Runkle 7th 10th(tied) 10th
Philadelphia Blue Caps Chauncey Eldridge 8th Otis Hoyle 1st(tied) 3rd
Buffalo Bulls Jud Grimble 9th 10th(tied) 11th
Detroit Spartans Billy Wegman 10th Chester Yerrick 1st(tied) 6th
Brooklyn Unions Abel Rosenthal 11th Elias Winston 4th 9th
Washington Columbians Barton Kingsley 12th 10th(tied) 12th
RELIEVERS
Team Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
Washington Columbians Ambrose Kirkland 1st 9th(tied) 1st
Chicago Zephyrs Hank Jenson 2nd Jacob Poehler 8th 2nd
Cincinnati Satraps Irving Getzel 3rd Irving Bauman 1st 3rd
Pittsburgh Vulcans Dwight Burdick 4th Elwood Korn 3rd 4th
Philadelphia Blue Caps Hugh Moffat 5th Oscar Strickland 6th 5th
Detroit Spartans Ernest Drake 6th 9th(tied) 8th
Buffalo Bulls Orville Brockway 7th Franklin Eckrich 7th 7th
Louisville Stallions Hal Peters 8th Herman Welty 4th 6th
Boston Resolutes 9th (tied) Milt Ayers 5th 10th
Brooklyn Unions 9th (tied) 9th(tied) 11th(tied)
Cleveland Bears 9th (tied) 9th(tied) 11th(tied)
New York Titans 9th (tied) Bricks Rosenbaum 2nd 9th
CLOSERS
Team Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
Chicago Zephyrs Hank Jenson 1st Jacob Poehler 8th 3rd
Cincinnati Satraps Irving Getzel 2nd Irving Bauman 3rd 4th
Pittsburgh Vulcans Dwight Burdick 3rd Elwood Korn 1st(tied) 1st
Washington Columbians Ambrose Kirkland 4th 9th(tied) 7th
Buffalo Bulls Hollis Nowalk 5th Franklin Eckrich 7th 5th
Philadelphia Blue Caps Hugh Moffat 6th Effie Norton 1st(tied) 2nd
Detroit Spartans Ernest Drake 7th 9th(tied) 8th
Louisville Stallions Hal Peters 8th Herman Welty 5th 6th
Boston Resolutes 9th (tied) Milt Ayers 6th 10th
Brooklyn Unions 9th (tied) 9th(tied) 11th(tied)
Cleveland Bears 9th (tied) 9th(tied) 11th(tied)
New York Titans 9th (tied) Bricks Rosenbaum 4th 9th
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