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The Top Ranked Starting Pitchers of the 1900s
Notes: Players are only ranked in the position they played the most during this decade.
| Rnk | Athlete | Overall Decade Rank |
| 1 | Rube Waddell | 2 |
| 2 | Christy Mathewson | 3 |
| 3 | Cy Young | 6 |
| 4 | Three Finger Brown | 8 |
| 5 | Ed Walsh | 10 |
| 6 | Jack Chesbro | 13 |
| 7 | Eddie Plank | 17 |
| 8 | Ed Reulbach | 19 |
| 9 | Deacon Phillippe | 20 |
| 10 | Addie Joss | 21 |
| 11 | Noodles Hahn | 23 |
| 12 | Joe McGinnity | 24 |
| 13 | Bill Donovan | 25 |
| 14 | Vic Willis | 26 |
| 15 | Doc White | 29 |
| 16 | Bill Dinneen | 30 |
| 17 | Orval Overall | 32 |
| 18 | Jesse Tannehill | 33 |
| 19 | Frank Smith | 35 |
| 20 | Chief Bender | 42 |
| 21 | Sam Leever | 43 |
| 22 | Earl Moore | 48 |
| 23 | Tom Hughes | 50 |
| 24 | Jack Powell | 52 |
| 25 | Jack Taylor | 53 |
| 26 | Red Ames | 54 |
| 27 | Jake Weimer | 56 |
| 28 | Carl Lundgren | 62 |
| 29 | George Mullin | 63 |
| 30 | Hooks Wiltse | 64 |
| 31 | Jack Pfiester | 65 |
| 32 | Harry Howell | 67 |
| 33 | Al Orth | 71 |
| 34 | Bill Bernhard | 73 |
| 35 | Ned Garvin | 75 |
| 36 | Frank Kitson | 77 |
| 37 | Bob Ewing | 78 |
| 38 | Dummy Taylor | 80 |
| 39 | Howie Camnitz | 81 |
| 40 | Kid Nichols | 82 |
| 41 | Red Donahue | 87 |
| 42 | Clark Griffith | 89 |
| 43 | Togie Pittinger | 94 |
| 44 | Tully Sparks | 95 |
| 45 | Willie Sudhoff | 98 |
| 46 | Nap Rucker | 100 |
| 47 | Bob Wicker | 102 |
| 48 | Ed Killian | 103 |
| 49 | Lefty Leifield | 104 |
| 50 | Ed Doheny | 107 |
| 51 | Ed Siever | 109 |
| 52 | Frank Owen | 110 |
| 53 | Jimmy Dygert | 115 |
| 54 | Chick Fraser | 116 |
| 55 | Barney Pelty | 118 |
| 56 | Roy Patterson | 119 |
| 57 | George Winter | 120 |
| 58 | Doc Newton | 123 |
| 59 | Fred Glade | 125 |
| 60 | Nixey Callahan | 126 |
| 61 | Bob Rhoads | 128 |
| 62 | Fred Beebe | 136 |
| 63 | Nick Altrock | 137 |
| 64 | Jack Harper | 138 |
| 65 | Ed Summers | 140 |
| 66 | Jack Coombs | 142 |
| 67 | Bill Duggleby | 144 |
| 68 | Casey Patten | 145 |
| 69 | Andy Coakley | 146 |
| 70 | Cy Morgan | 150 |
| 71 | Wiley Piatt | 152 |
| 72 | Johnny Lush | 153 |
| 73 | Frank Corridon | 156 |
| 74 | Cy Falkenberg | 157 |
| 75 | Ted Lewis | 170 |
| 76 | Jay Hughes | 171 |
| 77 | Doc Scanlan | 172 |
| 78 | Jack Sutthoff | 174 |
| 79 | Lew Richie | 177 |
| 80 | Buttons Briggs | 180 |
| 81 | Happy Townsend | 182 |
| 82 | Cecil Ferguson | 183 |
| 83 | Charlie Smith | 185 |
| 84 | Jim Scott | 187 |
| 85 | Jack Cronin | 189 |
| 86 | Bill Carrick | 190 |
| 87 | Bill Hogg | 191 |
| 88 | Irv Young | 193 |
| 89 | Win Mercer | 196 |
| 90 | Patsy Flaherty | 202 |
| 91 | Lew Moren | 205 |
| 92 | Pink Hawley | 206 |
| 93 | Otto Hess | 213 |
| 94 | Mal Eason | 215 |
| 95 | Joe Lake | 221 |
| 96 | John Malarkey | 222 |
| 97 | Harry McIntire | 223 |
| 98 | Ed Scott | 224 |
| 99 | Kaiser Wilhelm | 228 |
| 100 | Vive Lindaman | 229 |
| 101 | Oscar Jones | 233 |
| 102 | Bill Phillips (P) | 236 |
| 103 | Harry Gaspar | 237 |
| 104 | Roy Evans | 242 |
| 105 | Bill Burns | 245 |
| 106 | Glenn Liebhardt Sr. | 246 |
| 107 | Elmer Stricklett | 248 |
| 108 | Walter Johnson | 250 |
| 109 | Buster Brown | 255 |
| 110 | George G. Bell | 257 |
| 111 | Clarence Currie | 261 |
| 112 | Ed Poole | 263 |
| 113 | Jack Katoll | 265 |
| 114 | Bill Foxen | 267 |
| 115 | Weldon Henley | 268 |
| 116 | Slow Joe Doyle | 271 |
| 117 | Pete Dowling | 273 |
| 118 | Walter Clarkson | 274 |
| 119 | Henry Schmidt | 276 |
| 120 | Mike O'Neill | 279 |
| 121 | George McQuillan | 280 |
| 122 | Tom Walker | 282 |
| 123 | Roscoe Miller | 284 |
| 124 | Heinie Berger | 285 |
| 125 | Rube Manning | 290 |
| 126 | Bert Husting | 292 |
| 127 | Jock Menefee | 293 |
| 128 | Rube Marquard | 294 |
| 129 | Ed Karger | 297 |
| 130 | Rube Vickers | 302 |
| 131 | Jerry Nops | 306 |
| 132 | Norwood Gibson | 309 |
| 133 | Bill Hart | 312 |
| 134 | Chappie McFarland | 313 |
| 135 | Watty Lee | 315 |
| 136 | Gene Wright | 318 |
| 137 | Barney Wolfe | 328 |
| 138 | Ham Iburg | 329 |
| 139 | Bob Groom | 334 |
| 140 | Nick Maddox | 338 |
| 141 | Beany Jacobson | 348 |
| 142 | Carl Druhot | 349 |
| 143 | Jim Pastorius | 352 |
| 144 | Bill Phyle | 353 |
| 145 | Gus Dorner | 355 |
| 146 | Charlie Shields | 361 |
| 147 | John Deering | 362 |
| 148 | Kirby White | 370 |
| 149 | Brickyard Kennedy | 374 |
| 150 | Eddie Cicotte | 375 |
| 151 | Mike Lynch | 376 |
| 152 | Ed Murphy | 379 |
| 153 | Charlie Chech | 385 |
| 154 | Jim Buchanan | 388 |
| 155 | Roy Hitt | 389 |
| 156 | Jake Thielman | 391 |
| 157 | Ed Willett | 392 |
| 158 | Jack Dunn | 393 |
| 159 | Burt Keeley | 394 |
| 160 | Dolly Gray | 395 |
| 161 | Bugs Raymond | 396 |
| 162 | Bob Harmon | 402 |
| 163 | John McPherson | 403 |
| 164 | Tom Fisher | 404 |
| 165 | Snake Wiltse | 405 |
| 166 | Ed McNichol | 407 |
| 167 | Ed Smith | 408 |
| 168 | Les Backman | 409 |
| 169 | Harry Krause | 415 |
| 170 | Fred Mitchell | 418 |
| 171 | Bill Reidy | 420 |
| 172 | Cowboy Jones | 421 |
| 173 | Pop Williams | 424 |
| 174 | Ralph Glaze | 429 |
| 175 | Frank Arellanes | 435 |
| 176 | Big Jeff Pfeffer | 444 |
| 177 | Charlie Case | 445 |
| 178 | Art Fromme | 452 |
| 179 | Billy Campbell | 453 |
| 180 | Ted Breitenstein | 464 |
| 181 | Davey Dunkle | 470 |
| 182 | Bill Grahame | 472 |
| 183 | Chick Robitaille | 475 |
| 184 | Stan Yerkes | 479 |
| 185 | Bill Bailey | 480 |
| 186 | Jack Rowan | 481 |
| 187 | Smoky Joe Wood | 485 |
| 188 | Jack Warhop | 486 |
| 189 | Rube Kroh | 490 |
| 190 | Henry Thielman | 491 |
| 191 | Highball Wilson | 494 |
| 192 | Biff Schlitzer | 495 |
| 193 | Lew Brockett | 501 |
| 194 | Win Kellum | 504 |
| 195 | Bob Spade | 505 |
| 196 | Al Mattern | 510 |
| 197 | Jesse Stovall | 512 |
| 198 | Archie Stimmel | 517 |
| 199 | Frank Foreman | 522 |
| 200 | Dale Gear | 530 |
| 201 | Wish Egan | 534 |
| 202 | John Eubank | 540 |
| 203 | Harry Coveleski | 543 |
| 204 | Del Mason | 544 |
| 205 | Charley Hall | 565 |
| 206 | Zaza Harvey | 571 |
| 207 | Jack Doscher | 572 |
| 208 | Charlie Rhodes | 573 |
| 209 | Rube Kisinger | 574 |
| 210 | Doc Reisling | 575 |
| 211 | Homer Hillebrand | 576 |
| 212 | Elmer Steele | 577 |
| 213 | Len Swormstedt | 578 |
| 214 | Jim St. Vrain | 580 |
| 215 | Harry Kane | 581 |
| 216 | Harry Eells | 582 |
| 217 | Joe Corbett | 583 |
| 218 | Pete Wilson | 585 |
| 219 | Cliff Curtis | 586 |
| 220 | Doc McJames | 587 |
| 221 | Gus Thompson | 589 |
| 222 | Nig Cuppy | 591 |
| 223 | John Skopec | 592 |
| 224 | Ed Barry | 594 |
| 225 | Bill Hoffer | 595 |
| 226 | Eli Cates | 596 |
| 227 | Alex Pearson | 597 |
| 228 | Tom Tuckey | 598 |
| 229 | Charlie Jaeger | 600 |
| 230 | Ike Butler | 602 |
| 231 | Rip Hagerman | 603 |
| 232 | Bill Magee | 604 |
| 233 | Cy Vorhees | 606 |
| 234 | Jack McFetridge | 607 |
| 235 | Roger Denzer | 608 |
| 236 | Gene McCann | 609 |
| 237 | Oscar Graham | 613 |
| 238 | Ray Collins | 614 |
| 239 | Tom McCarthy (1884) | 615 |
| 240 | Frank Morrissey | 617 |
| 241 | Harry McNeal | 618 |
| 242 | War Sanders | 619 |
| 243 | Hank Gehring | 621 |
| 244 | Jim McGinley | 622 |
| 245 | Rick Adams | 624 |
| 246 | Fred Smith | 625 |
| 247 | Leffy Leifield | 626 |
| 248 | Jack Bracken | 628 |
| 249 | Crese Heismann | 629 |
| 250 | King Brady | 630 |
| 251 | Harry Ables | 631 |
| 252 | Warren McLaughlin | 632 |
| 253 | Alex Hardy | 633 |
| 254 | Fred Olmstead | 634 |
| 255 | Joe Harris (1882) | 638 |
| 256 | Lave Winham | 639 |
| 257 | Bill Essick | 642 |
| 258 | Kid Speer | 644 |
| 259 | John Raleigh | 648 |
| 260 | Martin Glendon | 649 |
| 261 | Tacks Neuer | 650 |
| 262 | Sam Frock | 652 |
| 263 | Claude Elliott | 653 |
| 264 | Bob Lawson | 654 |
| 265 | Harry Hardy | 655 |
| 266 | Ernie Groth | 657 |
| 267 | Ralph Caldwell | 660 |
| 268 | Bill Popp | 661 |
| 269 | Dixie Walker Sr. | 662 |
| 270 | Fred Applegate | 663 |
| 271 | Arch McCarthy | 664 |
| 272 | Ed Kinsella | 666 |
| 273 | Walter Moser | 667 |
| 274 | Bill Cristall | 668 |
| 275 | Jim Gardner | 669 |
| 276 | Sandy McDougal | 670 |
| 277 | Harry Wolter | 671 |
| 278 | Chick Brandom | 672 |
| 279 | Hank Olmsted | 673 |
| 280 | Jack Hickey | 674 |
| 281 | John McMakin | 675 |
| 282 | Jimmy Wiggs | 678 |
| 283 | Crazy Schmit | 679 |
| 284 | Barney McFadden | 683 |
| 285 | Jack Flater | 684 |
| 286 | Jesse Whiting | 685 |
| 287 | Rip Vowinkel | 688 |
| 288 | George Hunter | 689 |
| 289 | Dad Hale | 690 |
| 290 | Grant Thatcher | 692 |
| 291 | Hi West | 693 |
| 292 | Libe Washburn | 695 |
| 293 | Whitey Guese | 696 |
| 294 | Bull Durham | 698 |
| 295 | George Merritt | 700 |
| 296 | Harry Hoch | 701 |
| 297 | Jerry Upp | 702 |
| 298 | Oscar Streit | 703 |
| 299 | Clyde Goodwin | 705 |
| 300 | Jake Volz | 707 |
| 301 | Wiley Dunham | 708 |
| 302 | Willie Mitchell | 709 |
| 303 | Hack Schumann | 710 |
| 304 | Marty O'Toole | 711 |
| 305 | Dode Criss | 713 |
| 306 | Dick Scott (1883) | 715 |
| 307 | Harry Felix | 716 |
| 308 | Herb Jackson | 718 |
| 309 | Jim Moroney | 720 |
| 310 | Charlie Moran | 723 |
| 311 | Cotton Minahan | 724 |
| 312 | Dick Braggins | 725 |
| 313 | George Prentiss | 728 |
| 314 | Herm Malloy | 730 |
| 315 | Louis Drucke | 732 |
| 316 | Ed Hughes | 737 |
| 317 | George Leitner | 738 |
| 318 | Roy Castleton | 739 |
| 319 | Bill Lattimore | 740 |
| 320 | Ed Walker | 741 |
| 321 | Gus Weyhing | 742 |
| 322 | Harry Otis | 743 |
| 323 | Al Klawitter | 744 |
| 324 | Bill McGill | 745 |
| 325 | Bob Blewett | 746 |
| 326 | Gus Salve | 747 |
| 327 | Al Kellogg | 753 |
| 328 | Bob Edmondson | 754 |
| 329 | Rip Ragan | 756 |
| 330 | Roy Beecher | 757 |
| 331 | Willie Mills | 758 |
| 332 | Amos Rusie | 759 |
| 333 | Henry Mathewson | 760 |
| 334 | Bock Baker | 763 |
| 335 | Doc Adkins | 764 |
| 336 | Elmer Knetzer | 765 |
| 337 | Orson Baldwin | 768 |
| 338 | Al Maul | 772 |
| 339 | Bill Otey | 773 |
| 340 | Dike Varney | 775 |
| 341 | Eddie Dent | 776 |
| 342 | Elijah Jones | 777 |
| 343 | Lucky Wright | 779 |
| 344 | Frank Barberich | 780 |
| 345 | James Durham | 782 |
| 346 | Harvey Cushman | 791 |
| 347 | Chick Evans | 798 |
| 348 | Ernie Ross | 799 |
| 349 | Phil Stremmel | 803 |
| 350 | Rudy Schwenck | 808 |
| 351 | Bill Lelivelt | 810 |
| 352 | Bill Forman | 817 |
| 353 | Chuck Rose | 824 |
| 354 | Fred Winchell | 837 |
| 355 | Jack Gilligan | 844 |
| 356 | George Daly | 855 |
| 357 | Ed Kusel | 859 |
| 358 | Bill McCorry | 862 |
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