MLB / Players

George Altman

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 4 in · 200 lb

BornMarch 20, 1933 · Goldsboro, NC, USA

MLB debutApril 11, 1959

Final gameOctober 1, 1967

Seasons9 (1959–1967)

Chicago Cubs 1959–1962; St. Louis Cardinals 1963; New York Mets 1964; Chicago Cubs 1965–1967

Percentile snapshot

1963 season — qualified batters

135

521

9.9

464

5.9

31.7

127

20.8

16.8

74.3

33.7

RBI

21.8

52.5

21.8

80.2

36.6

.274

64.4

OBP

.339

60.4

SLG

.401

49.5

OPS

.740

52.5

wRC+

108.6

49.5

OPS+

105.6

48.5

wOBA

.338

56.4

sWAR

1.6

32.7

of 102 qualified 1963 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

104.1

50.2

OPS+

104.2

sWAR

9.4

86.3

wRC+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; OPS+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; sWAR measured against every career in history, 24,011 of them. Only era-adjusted career stats carry a percentile — a raw career total gets a rank instead, because pooling the 1890s with the 2020s is a choice, not a measurement.

Season by season

Batting

Season	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1959	135	468	420	54	103	14	4	12	47	34	80	1	0	.245	.312	.383	.695	83.8	84.3	.312	0.8
1960	119	372	334	50	89	16	4	13	51	32	67	4	3	.266	.330	.455	.785	110.6	112.7	.345	1.3
1961	138	573	518	77	157	28	12	27	96	40	92	6	2	.303	.353	.560	.913	134.7	134.8	.394	3.8
1962	147	603	534	74	170	27	5	22	74	62	89	19	7	.318	.393	.511	.904	136.2	136.8	.398	3.9
1963	135	521	464	62	127	18	7	9	47	47	93	13	4	.274	.339	.401	.740	108.6	105.6	.338	1.6
1964	124	445	422	48	97	14	1	9	47	18	70	4	2	.230	.262	.332	.594	60.6	65.9	.266	-1.3
1965	90	216	196	24	46	7	1	4	23	19	36	3	2	.235	.302	.342	.644	78.1	78.5	.296	-0.1
1966	88	201	185	19	41	6	0	5	17	14	37	2	2	.222	.276	.335	.612	63.0	67.8	.274	-0.5
1967	15	20	18	1	2	2	0	0	1	2	8	0	0	.111	.200	.222	.422	15.5	18.4	.208	-0.2

Career totals

991

3,419

3,091

409

832

132

101

RBI

403

268

572

.2692

OBP

.3294

SLG

.4319

OPS

.7613

A total is called out only where it ranks in the all-time top 500; hover a figure for its rank and the size of the field it was ranked in. Ranks are absolute facts and carry no percentile — the population for "career home runs" would be an editorial choice, and the rank is not.

Best games

Batting

Date	Game	AB	R	H	2B	HR	RBI	BB	TB
1959-08-13	SF @ CHC Gameday	6	3	5	0	2	5	0	11
1962-05-15	CHC @ NYM Gameday	6	2	4	0	2	2	0	10
1961-06-28	CIN @ CHC Gameday	5	2	4	2	1	2	0	9
1962-05-18	CHC @ PHI Gameday	4	3	3	0	2	5	1	9
1961-08-04	CHC @ LAD Gameday	4	2	3	0	2	3	0	9

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1959-07-09	CHC @ PIT Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1962-05-21	CHC @ PIT Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1962-05-22	CHC @ PIT Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1962-05-29	ATL @ CHC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1962-07-01	CHC @ ATL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Ranked from our own play-by-play game log, which begins in 1901 — not from the record book, so a career played outside it shows nothing here rather than a short list.

Honors

2× All-Star

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.