MLB / Players

George Burns

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 7 in · 160 lb

BornNovember 24, 1889 · Utica, NY, USA

MLB debutOctober 3, 1911

Final gameSeptember 4, 1925

Seasons15 (1911–1925)

New York Giants 1911–1921; Cincinnati Reds 1922–1924; Philadelphia Phillies 1925

Percentile snapshot

1923 season — qualified batters

154

96.6

724

99.4

614

96.1

90.5

168

77.7

75.4

91.1

44.7

RBI

46.9

101

99.4

10.1

74.9

8.4

.274

22.3

OBP

.376

65.9

SLG

.375

35.8

OPS

.751

47.5

wRC+

107.3

52.5

OPS+

102.7

44.1

wOBA

.358

sWAR

2.3

69.3

of 180 qualified 1923 batters (min 477 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

118.0

76.3

OPS+

117.2

sWAR

39.5

97.9

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
1911	6	19	17	2	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	.059	.111	.059	.170	-53.1	-51.5	.096	-0.3
1912	29	60	51	11	15	4	0	0	3	8	8	7	0	.294	.400	.373	.773	117.5	112.2	.378	0.3
1913	150	676	605	81	173	37	4	2	54	58	74	40	0	.286	.352	.370	.723	108.8	107.7	.346	2.2
1914	154	669	561	100	170	35	10	3	60	89	53	62	0	.303	.403	.417	.820	151.5	148.4	.397	5.6
1915	155	688	622	83	169	27	14	3	51	56	57	27	20	.272	.333	.375	.707	118.7	119.1	.338	3.0
1916	155	696	623	105	174	24	8	5	41	63	47	37	26	.279	.346	.368	.714	126.3	123.8	.342	3.7
1917	152	678	597	103	180	25	13	5	45	75	55	40	0	.302	.380	.412	.792	151.9	148.2	.379	5.7
1918	119	522	465	80	135	22	6	4	51	43	37	40	0	.290	.354	.389	.743	131.6	130.3	.359	3.5
1919	139	624	534	86	162	30	9	2	46	82	37	40	0	.303	.396	.404	.801	150.0	143.4	.385	5.1
1920	154	714	631	115	181	35	9	6	46	76	48	22	22	.287	.365	.399	.765	125.2	122.0	.363	3.8
1921	149	698	605	111	181	28	9	4	61	80	24	19	20	.299	.386	.395	.781	113.4	108.9	.367	3.2
1922	156	723	631	104	180	20	10	1	53	78	38	30	23	.285	.366	.353	.719	93.5	89.6	.342	1.7
1923	154	724	614	99	168	27	13	3	45	101	46	12	14	.274	.376	.375	.751	107.3	102.7	.358	2.3
1924	93	371	336	43	86	19	2	2	33	29	21	3	6	.256	.315	.342	.657	79.7	79.8	.307	-0.2
1925	88	389	349	65	102	29	1	1	22	33	20	4	8	.292	.353	.390	.743	79.5	80.0	.342	-0.2

Career totals

1,853

364th-most career G

8,251

246th-most career PA

7,241

260th-most career AB

1,188

197th-most career R

2,077

254th-most career H

362

285th-most career 2B

108

135th-most career 3B

RBI

611

872

201st-most career BB

565

383

85th-most career SB

.2868

488th-highest career batting average

OBP

.3655

368th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.3836

OPS

.7491

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	HR	RBI	BB	TB
1920-09-17	PIT @ SF Gameday	5	3	5	2	1	1	1	0	12
1916-07-11	SF @ CIN Gameday	5	2	4	0	0	2	4	1	10
1915-05-10	SF @ ATL Gameday	5	2	4	0	2	0	1	0	8
1916-06-21	ATL @ SF Gameday	5	3	3	0	1	1	2	0	8
1915-10-07	SF @ ATL Gameday	6	4	4	1	1	0	1	0	7

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1911-04-12	PHI @ SF Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1911-04-13	PHI @ SF Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1911-04-15	LAD @ SF Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1911-04-17	LAD @ SF Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1911-04-18	LAD @ SF 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.