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===Cleveland Blues=== In May 1880, Dunlap began a 12-year career in [[Major League Baseball]] with the [[Cleveland Blues (NL)|Cleveland Blues]]. In his first season, Dunlap immediately established himself as one of the game's best players. For the 1880 season, Dunlap led the [[National League (baseball)|National League]] (NL) in doubles (27) and ranked second in extra base hits (40) and [[times on base]] (132) while serving as the team's [[leadoff hitter]].<ref name=BR/><ref>{{cite news|title=In And Out-Door Sports. Turf, Field, Stream and Table|work=[[The Plain Dealer]]|date=June 28, 1880|page=1}}</ref> He also made a strong debut on defense, leading the National League in assists by a second baseman (290). Dunlap remained with the Blues for four seasons and consistently ranked as one of the leading hitters and defensive second basemen in the National League. In 1881, he compiled 156 total bases, the second most in the NL, and had a .325 batting average and .444 [[slugging percentage]], ranking fifth in the NL in both categories. In 1882, he led the NL's second basemen with 297 assists and a [[range factor]] of 6.73.<ref name=BR/> In his final year in Cleveland, Dunlap had a .326 batting average, .361 [[on-base percentage]], and .452 slugging percentage, ranking among the league's leaders in each of those categories. Defensively, he led the league's second basemen in putouts (304) and ranked third in assists (290) and fielding percentage (.911).<ref name=BR/> Dunlap was the star of the Cleveland team in the early 1880s. So key was he to the Blues that one writer observed, "The Maroons without Dunlap are like the play of Hamlet without the melancholy Dane."<ref>{{cite book |author=Nemec |first=David |title=The Beer and Whisky League |last2=Rucker |first2=Mark |publisher=Globe Pequot |year=2004 |isbn=1-59228-188-5 |page=82}}</ref>
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