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File has been updated with 1876-'80, 1884, 1902 and 1905.
Numbers are a bit wild for the 1870s due to few teams, short schedules and franchises coming and going (the league ITPHR rate dropped from 59% in 1877 to 27% in '78, in large part due to Louisville dropping out). But in the 1880s and '90s it's looking like the ITPHR rate was around the 13-18% mark, to put some of the player career figures in post #33 in a bit more perspective.
And then the rate jumps to around 45-50% in the 1900s - this is what I've found for both 1902 and '05 so I don't think it's just me at this point. I plan to do some later decades next to find out more trends over time and get some ITPHR rates for more classic old ballparks.
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