Ed McFarland Marquee

McFarland put together his best two-year stretch after St. Louis sent him to Philadelphia during 1897. He collected 121 hits and drove in 71 runs in 1898, then hit a career-high .333 with 108 hits, 57 runs batted in and 59 runs in 1899.

Fourteen major-league seasons gave him 826 hits, 146 doubles, 49 triples, 383 runs batted in and a .275 average across 894 games. He caught 830 games and appeared only 18 times elsewhere. His career-high three home runs came in 1898.

McFarland debuted for Cleveland in 1893, returned with St. Louis in 1896 and spent parts of five seasons with Philadelphia. Six seasons with the White Sox followed from 1902 through 1907. He finished with 19 games for Boston in 1908 and died in 1959, at eighty-six.