Rank your top 19th Century Baseball Players

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-Thank you all for the input and your responses! This has been a super fun read!!

I dove deep tonight and did my own statistical analysis and interestingly enough came up with the same top 10 (although I'm sure it's a different order) as Michael "Molenick".

I focused heavily in a lot of cases on more current statistical segments like WAR and OPS+. I found 4 pitchers that really stood ahead of the rest (although if I was forced to take a 5th it would've been McCormick...sorry Pud!).

As for the position players the top 5 for me were easy to select.

The 6th came down to a tight grouping and I was forced to leave off guys like Thompson (baaarely), Stovey (surprised he wasn't mentioned more), Browning (one of my all time favorites) and Orr (sorry just not enough playing time for me). And at the end of the day, if Connie Mack and Jay Miller say Buck Ewing belong in top 10 then who am I to argue?

Without further ado:

Position-
1. Brouthers
2. Delahanty
3. Anson
4. Connor
5. Hamilton
6. Ewing

Pitchers-
1. Nichols
2. Clarkson
3. Radbourn
4. Keefe