Spiders

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The Cleveland Spiders were a 19th-century National League team, founded in 1887 as the Cleveland Blues playing in the American Association.

The 1899 Spiders had a truly poor season, caused by their owner shipping all its talented players to the Cardinals, which he also happened to own as part of a syndicate. J. Thomas Hetrick's book Misfits: The Cleveland Spiders in 1899: A Day-By-Day Narrative of Baseball Futility recounts the Spiders' struggle in impressive detail.

The Spiders were so bad, in both W-L record and fan attendance, that they dropped out of the NL immediately following the 1899 season, never to return.

Spiders are also what Blue Jays outfielder Glenallen Hill was trying to escape from in his dreams when he crashed through a glass table in his home; the injury landed him on the disabled list on July 12, 1990. Not Cleveland Spiders, mind you .... Hill thought he saw real spiders.

Phillies infielder Dave Hollins was bitten by a real spider in 2002. As evidenced by his .167 on-base percentage that season, he did not acquire any super-powers from the incident, so the spider presumably was not radioactive or genetically modified.