I have an associative array declared in a file as follows:

<?php $players = array (
  'catcher' => 'Brian McCann',
  'firstBase' => 'Eddie Mathews',
  'secondBase' => 'Ozzie Albies',
  'shortstop' => 'Andrelton Simmons',
  'thirdBase' => 'Chipper Jones',
  'leftField' => 'Dale Murphy',
  'centerField' => 'Andruw Jones',
  'rightField' => 'Ronald Acuna Jr',
  'designatedHitter' => 'Hank Aaron',
  'pitcher1' => 'Greg Maddux',
  'pitcher2' => 'John Smoltz',
  'pitcher3' => 'Tom Glavine',
  'pitcher4' => 'Warren Spahn',
  'pitcher5' => 'Tim Hudson',
  'closer' => 'Craig Kimbrel',
); ?>

Immediately after this I have an include statement for a PHP file in which I need to use this array.

<?php include './framework/component/allTime_team.php'; ?>

I attempted to use <?php echo $players['catcher']; ?> when I needed to use one of the values but I received no output. I then tried <?php var_dump($player['catcher']); ?> and received NULL as the output.

How do I access the data in this array?