George Crowe

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 210 lb

BornMarch 22, 1921 · Whiteland, IN, USA

MLB debutApril 16, 1952

Final gameApril 30, 1961

Seasons11 (1947–1961)

New York Black Yankees 1947–1948; Philadelphia Stars 1948; Boston Braves 1952; Milwaukee Braves 1953; Milwaukee Braves 1955; Cincinnati Redlegs 1956–1958; St. Louis Cardinals 1959–1961

Percentile snapshot

1957 season — qualified batters

133

18.9

532

494

37.8

41.9

134

33.8

4.1

89.2

RBI

81.1

14.9

40.5

6.8

68.9

.271

39.2

OBP

.314

17.6

SLG

.504

82.4

OPS

.818

67.6

wRC+

109.2

OPS+

110.3

52.7

wOBA

.353

60.8

sWAR

1.3

21.6

of 75 qualified 1957 batters (min 477 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

6.3

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
1947	27	93	85	19	26	2	4	2	21	7	0	1	0	.306	.359	.494	.853	125.0	132.0	.394	0.5
1948	19	75	66	9	23	4	2	3	12	8	0	0	0	.348	.419	.606	1.025	183.1	195.2	.470	0.9
1952	73	240	217	25	56	13	1	4	20	18	25	0	1	.258	.329	.382	.712	100.9	101.4	.329	0.3
1953	47	45	42	6	12	2	0	2	6	2	7	0	0	.286	.333	.476	.810	112.6	115.4	.354	0.1
1955	104	354	303	41	85	12	4	15	55	45	44	1	0	.281	.374	.495	.869	134.2	136.2	.379	2.0
1956	77	157	144	22	36	2	1	10	23	11	28	0	0	.250	.312	.486	.798	106.5	105.7	.348	0.4
1957	133	532	494	71	134	20	1	31	92	32	62	1	1	.271	.314	.504	.818	109.2	110.3	.353	1.3
1958	111	392	345	31	95	12	5	7	61	41	51	1	0	.275	.348	.400	.748	94.0	93.1	.336	0.2
1959	77	109	103	14	31	6	0	8	29	5	12	0	0	.301	.330	.592	.923	131.2	134.0	.390	0.7
1960	73	79	72	5	17	3	0	4	13	5	16	0	0	.236	.278	.444	.723	80.8	88.5	.311	0.0
1961	7	7	7	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	.143	.143	.143	.286	-43.3	-26.2	.130	-0.1

Career totals

748

2,083

1,878

243

516

RBI

332

174

246

.2748

OBP

.3372

SLG

.4718

OPS

.8090

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	3B	HR	RBI	TB
1957-07-04	ATL @ CIN Gameday	5	2	5	0	2	6	11
1956-04-28	CHC @ CIN Gameday	4	2	3	1	2	5	11
1955-08-31	ATL @ LAD Gameday	5	3	3	0	2	3	9
1957-05-08	CIN @ LAD Gameday	4	3	3	0	2	3	9
1957-07-17	CIN @ SF Gameday	4	2	2	0	2	4	8

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1947-04-27	NBY @ HOM Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1947-04-27	NBY @ HOM Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1947-05-03	NBY @ NE Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1947-05-05	NYC @ NBY Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1947-05-06	NYC @ NBY 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.