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Joe Start
	Joseph Start
	(Old Reliable,Rocks)

	Born: October 14, 1842 in New York, NY
	Died: March 27, 1927 - 84 years old
	Bats: L	Throws: L	Ht: 5'9"	Wt: 165

Fielding Ratings(?)

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Notes:
- Visit Start's Managerial Page

Comparison

First Basemen				All Positions
Contemporaries	All-Time	Hall of Famers		Contemporaries	All-Time

#	Player	Yrs	Pos	WAR	HoF	Off	Fld	Pit	Adj
1	Cap Anson	1871 - 1897	1B	93.8	Pl	90.9	4.9	-0.1	1.8
2	Roger Connor	1880 - 1897	1B	84.2	Pl	78.9	6.3	0.0	1.0
3	Dan Brouthers	1879 - 1904	1B	78.3	Pl	81.7	-1.8	-1.1	0.6
4	Joe Start	1871 - 1886	1B	32.1		29.7	2.8	0.0	0.4
5	John Reilly	1880 - 1891	1B	23.4		24.3	-1.2	0.0	-0.4
6	John Morrill	1876 - 1890	1B	23.0		23.6	1.4	-0.4	1.6
7	Bill Phillips	1879 - 1888	1B	12.5		15.2	-2.5	0.0	0.2
8	Herman Dehlman	1872 - 1877	1B	2.9		0.9	2.1	0.0	0.1
9	Chub Sullivan	1877 - 1880	1B	2.9		1.5	1.4	0.0	0.0
10	Ed Cogswell	1879 - 1882	1B	2.8		3.0	-0.1	0.0	0.1
11	Tim Murnane	1872 - 1884	1B	1.9		2.7	-1.2	0.0	-0.5
12	Juice Latham	1875 - 1884	1B	1.6		1.6	0.3	0.0	0.3
13	Charlie Gould	1871 - 1877	1B	1.6		2.9	-0.9	-0.4	0.0
14	Ecky Stearns	1880 - 1889	1B	1.3		4.1	-2.7	0.0	0.1
15	Jake Goodman	1878 - 1882	1B	0.5		0.6	-0.0	0.0	0.0
16	Charlie Hautz	1875 - 1884	1B	0.5		0.5	-0.0	0.0	0.0
17	Aaron Clapp	1879 - 1879	1B	0.2		0.9	-0.7	0.0	-0.0
18	Bill White	1879 - 1879	1B	-0.0		-0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
19	Steve Libby	1879 - 1879	1B	-0.0		-0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
20	John McGuinness	1876 - 1884	1B	-0.2		0.1	-0.3	0.0	-0.0
21	Bill Tobin	1880 - 1880	1B	-1.1		-0.9	-0.2	0.0	0.0
22	Art Croft	1875 - 1878	1B	-1.4		-1.0	-0.7	0.0	-0.3

	Joe Start	1871 - 1886	1B	32.1		29.7	2.8	0.0	0.4

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Defensive Regression Analysis data used here was obtained with permission from Michael Humphreys, author of Wizardry.

The transaction and player splits data used here was obtained free of charge from and is copyrighted by Retrosheet.
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Uniform images used with permission from Marc Okkonen, author of Baseball Uniforms of the 20th Century.
Images can also be viewed at the Hall of Fame online exhibit Dressed to the Nines

Win Shares are calculated using the formula in the book Win Shares by Bill James