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James Robert McAleer (July 10 1864 - April 29 1931) was an American center fielder and manager in Major League Baseball who spent the majority of his fourteen-year playing career with the Cleveland Spiders. In 1898, when the Spiders' owners purchased the St. Louis Browns franchise, McAleer opted to stay in Cleveland, taking a three-year hiatus from baseball until the Cleveland Blues franchise joined the newly-formed American League. He only played in three games with the Blues in 1901 before taking over as manager of the new league's St. Louis Browns (a different team than the National League club).

He died in his birthplace of Youngstown, Ohio at age 66. Five years later, in the first elections to the Baseball Hall of Fame, he received one vote in the balloting for 19th-century figures.

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