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Farmer Weaver
	William B. Weaver


	Born: March 23, 1865 in Parkersburg, WV
	Died: January 23, 1943 - 77 years old
	Bats: L	Throws:	Ht: 5'10"	Wt: 170

Fielding Ratings(?)

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Comparison

Center Fielders				All Positions
Contemporaries	All-Time	Hall of Famers		Contemporaries	All-Time

#	Player	Yrs	Pos	WAR	HoF	Off	Fld	Pit	Adj
1	Billy Hamilton	1888 - 1901	CF	63.1	Pl	61.2	-5.2	0.0	-7.1
2	Paul Hines	1872 - 1891	CF	44.5		44.4	-5.6	-0.0	-5.8
3	Jimmy Ryan	1885 - 1903	CF	43.9		45.6	-10.1	0.2	-8.2
4	Hugh Duffy	1888 - 1906	CF	42.9	Pl	37.7	-2.5	0.0	-7.7
5	George Van Haltren	1887 - 1903	CF	42.5		45.1	-11.3	1.5	-7.3
6	Mike Griffin	1887 - 1898	CF	40.7		35.3	-0.8	0.0	-6.3
7	Pete Browning	1882 - 1894	CF	40.3		42.0	-5.8	-0.2	-4.3
8	George Gore	1879 - 1892	CF	39.9		38.2	-4.0	0.0	-5.7
9	Dummy Hoy	1888 - 1902	CF	32.6		35.9	-10.8	0.0	-7.5
10	Jake Stenzel	1890 - 1899	CF	21.4		23.5	-5.1	0.0	-3.0
11	Curt Welch	1884 - 1893	CF	20.1		13.5	1.8	-0.3	-5.1
12	Steve Brodie	1890 - 1902	CF	19.4		17.4	-3.9	0.0	-6.0
13	Bug Holliday	1889 - 1898	CF	18.1		19.7	-5.4	-0.3	-4.2
14	Ned Hanlon	1880 - 1892	CF	17.9	Ma	19.0	-6.5	0.0	-5.4
15	Tom Brown	1882 - 1898	CF	14.7		16.8	-8.8	-1.6	-8.3
16	Jim McTamany	1885 - 1891	CF	13.7		12.5	-2.7	0.0	-4.0
17	Charlie Duffee	1889 - 1893	CF	6.1		3.6	0.3	0.0	-2.2
18	Pop Corkhill	1883 - 1892	CF	4.9		-2.2	2.3	-0.4	-5.1
19	Farmer Weaver	1888 - 1894	CF	4.6		5.4	-3.5	0.0	-2.7
20	Monk Cline	1882 - 1891	CF	2.8		2.6	-0.9	0.0	-1.0
21	Dick Johnston	1884 - 1891	CF	2.6		0.8	-1.4	0.0	-3.1
22	Ed Andrews	1884 - 1891	CF	2.1		2.8	-3.4	0.0	-2.6
23	Jim Burns	1888 - 1891	CF	1.3		1.3	-0.9	0.0	-0.9
24	Jimmy McAleer	1889 - 1907	CF	1.2		-3.3	0.3	-0.2	-4.4
25	Sandy Griffin	1884 - 1893	CF	0.9		2.3	-2.1	0.0	-0.8
26	Hercules Burnett	1888 - 1895	CF	0.3		0.3	-0.0	0.0	-0.0
27	Joe Donohue	1891 - 1891	CF	0.2		0.1	0.1	0.0	-0.0
28	Walter Plock	1891 - 1891	CF	-0.0		0.1	-0.1	0.0	0.0
29	Ervin Curtis	1891 - 1891	CF	-0.1		0.3	-0.7	0.0	-0.3
30	Joe Daly	1890 - 1892	CF	-0.5		-0.0	-0.5	0.0	-0.0
31	Dan Burke	1890 - 1892	CF	-0.6		-0.4	-0.3	0.0	-0.1
32	Elmer Foster	1886 - 1891	CF	-0.8		-0.6	-0.6	0.0	-0.4
33	Mike Slattery	1884 - 1891	CF	-0.9		-1.7	-1.0	0.0	-1.8
34	Harry Lyons	1887 - 1893	CF	-2.5		-3.4	-0.9	-0.3	-2.1

	Farmer Weaver	1888 - 1894	CF	4.6		5.4	-3.5	0.0	-2.7

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Uniform images used with permission from Marc Okkonen, author of Baseball Uniforms of the 20th Century.
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Win Shares are calculated using the formula in the book Win Shares by Bill James