George Burns

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 180 lb

BornJanuary 31, 1893 · Niles, OH, USA

MLB debutApril 14, 1914

Final gameSeptember 29, 1929

Seasons16 (1914–1929)

Detroit Tigers 1914–1917; Philadelphia Athletics 1918–1919; Cleveland Indians 1920; Philadelphia Athletics 1920; Cleveland Indians 1921; Boston Red Sox 1922–1923; Cleveland Indians 1924–1928; New York Yankees 1928–1929; Philadelphia Athletics 1929

Percentile snapshot

1927 season — qualified batters

140

607

78.1

549

83.4

78.7

175

85.8

99.4

8.3

42.6

RBI

79.3

63.9

75.1

.319

68.6

OBP

.375

60.4

SLG

.435

59.8

OPS

.810

60.4

wRC+

108.7

54.4

OPS+

109.1

56.2

wOBA

.376

58.6

sWAR

1.6

47.9

of 170 qualified 1927 batters (min 474 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

109.9

61.2

OPS+

112.1

66.6

sWAR

18.1

92.7

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
1914	137	544	478	55	139	22	5	5	57	32	56	23	13	.291	.351	.389	.740	118.0	118.5	.360	1.6
1915	105	436	392	49	99	18	3	5	50	22	51	9	3	.253	.301	.352	.653	85.9	91.1	.319	-0.3
1916	135	527	479	60	137	22	6	4	73	22	30	12	0	.286	.327	.382	.709	106.0	109.8	.343	0.9
1917	119	442	407	42	92	14	10	1	40	15	33	3	0	.226	.264	.317	.581	68.6	75.9	.283	-1.2
1918	130	544	505	61	178	22	9	6	70	23	25	8	0	.352	.390	.467	.857	154.9	154.1	.414	4.2
1919	126	507	470	63	139	29	9	8	57	19	18	15	0	.296	.339	.447	.786	113.9	116.7	.367	1.6
1920	66	132	116	8	29	7	1	1	20	10	10	5	0	.250	.326	.353	.679	78.2	78.2	.324	-0.1
1921	84	265	244	52	88	21	4	0	49	13	19	3	1	.361	.398	.480	.877	121.7	122.2	.402	1.0
1922	147	602	558	71	171	32	5	12	73	20	28	8	2	.306	.341	.446	.787	101.1	104.3	.359	0.9
1923	146	615	551	91	181	47	5	7	82	45	33	9	7	.328	.386	.470	.856	122.4	123.2	.398	2.6
1924	129	529	462	64	143	37	5	4	68	29	27	14	5	.310	.370	.437	.807	103.7	104.9	.378	0.9
1925	127	523	488	69	164	41	4	6	79	24	24	16	11	.336	.371	.473	.844	109.9	112.8	.387	1.4
1926	151	657	603	97	216	64	3	4	114	28	33	13	7	.358	.394	.494	.889	129.5	130.5	.409	3.3
1927	140	607	549	84	175	51	2	3	78	42	27	13	11	.319	.375	.435	.810	108.7	109.1	.376	1.6
1928	86	242	213	30	54	12	1	5	30	17	12	2	3	.254	.326	.390	.716	85.4	86.3	.332	-0.1
1929	38	61	58	5	13	5	0	1	11	2	7	1	0	.224	.250	.362	.612	49.3	56.0	.275	-0.3

Career totals

1,866

354th-most career G

7,233

410th-most career PA

6,573

383rd-most career AB

901

479th-most career R

2,018

287th-most career H

444

118th-most career 2B

362nd-most career 3B

RBI

951

353rd-most career RBI

363

433

154

.3070

144th-highest career batting average

OBP

.3535

SLG

.4293

OPS

.7828

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
1924-07-23	CLE @ BOS Gameday	5	3	4	2	0	2	4	1	12
1924-06-19	CLE @ DET Gameday	6	2	6	3	1	0	2	0	11
1922-06-20	BOS @ DET Gameday	5	2	4	1	0	2	3	0	11
1928-08-29	CLE @ DET Gameday	5	2	4	0	0	2	5	0	10
1922-04-20	BOS @ ATH Gameday	6	2	4	0	0	2	3	0	10

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1914-04-14	BAL @ DET Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1914-04-16	BAL @ DET Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1914-04-17	BAL @ DET Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1914-04-18	CLE @ DET Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1914-04-19	CLE @ DET 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

1× Most Valuable Player

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