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George Anderson

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 8 in · 160 lb

BornSeptember 26, 1889 · Cleveland, OH, USA

MLB debutMay 26, 1914

Final gameSeptember 2, 1918

Seasons3 (1914–1918)

Brooklyn Tip-Tops 1914–1915; St. Louis Cardinals 1918

Percentile snapshot

1915 season — qualified batters

136

44.8

580

58.2

511

56.4

67.3

135

53.3

73.3

60.6

39.4

RBI

35.8

67.3

20.6

58.2

52.1

.264

42.4

OBP

.342

50.9

SLG

.356

46.1

OPS

.698

48.5

wRC+

106.5

47.3

OPS+

105.1

44.8

wOBA

.339

48.5

sWAR

1.8

45.5

of 166 qualified 1915 batters (min 474 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

5.0

79.4

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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1914	98	405	364	58	115	13	3	3	24	31	50	16	.316	.376	.393	.769	119.9	118.6	.367	2.0
1915	136	580	511	70	135	23	9	2	39	52	54	20	.264	.342	.356	.698	106.5	105.1	.339	1.8
1918	35	154	132	20	39	4	5	0	6	15	7	0	.295	.380	.402	.782	144.7	140.4	.379	1.1

Career totals

269

1,139

1,007

148

289

RBI

111

.2870

OBP

.3589

SLG

.3754

OPS

.7343

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	3B	RBI	BB	TB
1918-07-27	STL @ LAD Gameday	6	2	4	1	2	5	0	9
1918-08-16	ATL @ STL Gameday	4	1	3	0	0	0	1	3
1918-08-21	LAD @ STL Gameday	4	1	3	0	0	0	0	3
1918-09-02	STL @ CIN Gameday	4	2	3	0	0	0	0	3
1918-08-08	STL @ ATL Gameday	4	2	2	1	0	1	0	3

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1918-04-16	CHC @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1918-04-18	CHC @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1918-04-22	PIT @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1918-04-23	PIT @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1918-04-24	STL @ CHC 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.