George Davis

HandednessBats Switch · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 9 in · 180 lb

BornAugust 23, 1870 · Cohoes, NY, USA

MLB debutApril 19, 1890

Final gameAugust 15, 1909

Seasons20 (1890–1909)

Cleveland Spiders 1890–1892; New York Giants 1893–1901; Chicago White Sox 1902; New York Giants 1903; Chicago White Sox 1904–1909

Percentile snapshot

1908 season — qualified batters

128

33.7

497

30.8

419

31.7

44.2

13.5

RBI

31.7

68.3

36.5

70.2

.217

8.7

OBP

.298

26.9

SLG

.255

4.8

OPS

.553

7.7

wRC+

87.8

22.1

OPS+

83.2

17.3

wOBA

.281

11.5

sWAR

1.3

37.5

of 105 qualified 1908 batters (min 483 PA) · 1 stat not shown: every qualified player held the same value, so a percentile there carries no information

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

117.8

75.9

OPS+

119.3

78.3

sWAR

62.2

99.4

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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1890	136	583	526	98	139	22	9	6	73	53	34	22	.264	.336	.375	.711	104.3	106.8	.344	2.4
1891	136	627	570	115	165	35	12	3	89	53	29	42	.289	.354	.409	.763	116.0	121.7	.365	3.1
1892	144	658	597	95	144	27	12	5	82	58	51	36	.241	.312	.352	.663	98.8	100.1	.323	2.1
1893	133	600	549	112	195	22	27	11	119	42	20	37	.355	.410	.554	.964	139.6	154.9	.447	5.1
1894	124	566	486	125	171	27	19	9	93	67	10	42	.352	.434	.541	.976	126.4	133.7	.446	3.9
1895	110	490	430	108	146	36	9	5	101	55	12	48	.340	.417	.500	.917	128.0	135.6	.428	3.4
1896	124	554	494	98	158	25	12	5	99	50	24	48	.320	.387	.449	.836	116.1	119.9	.395	3.2
1897	131	576	521	112	184	31	10	10	135	43	23	65	.353	.410	.509	.918	133.6	141.5	.428	4.9
1898	121	529	486	80	149	20	5	2	86	32	15	26	.307	.351	.381	.731	106.6	109.1	.354	2.8
1899	109	467	419	69	141	22	5	1	59	38	15	35	.337	.394	.420	.814	120.8	123.1	.391	3.3
1900	114	472	426	69	136	20	4	3	61	35	23	29	.319	.376	.406	.782	114.3	115.8	.374	2.9
1901	130	538	491	69	148	26	7	7	65	40	38	27	.301	.356	.426	.782	123.7	126.6	.370	4.0
1902	132	566	485	76	145	27	7	3	93	65	23	31	.299	.386	.402	.788	124.5	123.4	.375	4.2
1903	4	16	15	2	4	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	.267	.313	.267	.579	68.0	64.6	.287	0.0
1904	152	626	563	75	142	27	15	1	69	43	61	32	.252	.311	.359	.670	116.0	116.2	.319	4.3
1905	151	654	550	74	153	29	1	1	55	60	66	31	.278	.353	.340	.693	128.5	126.9	.340	5.2
1906	133	541	484	63	134	26	6	0	80	41	53	27	.277	.338	.355	.694	121.6	121.3	.338	4.0
1907	132	534	466	59	111	16	2	1	52	47	60	15	.238	.313	.288	.601	100.2	97.0	.302	2.6
1908	128	497	419	41	91	14	1	0	26	41	46	22	.217	.298	.255	.553	87.8	83.2	.281	1.3
1909	28	84	68	5	9	1	0	0	2	10	10	4	.132	.253	.147	.400	42.0	30.5	.223	-0.5

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1891	3	0	0	1	1	0	0	8	7	3	4	0	4.0	15.75	2.750	9.00	2.66	79.4	21.2	3.1

sWAR is the season TOTAL for a player who both hit and pitched: the record book carries one figure per season, not a split, so the same number appears on both lines rather than being counted twice.

Career totals

Batting

2,372

96th-most career G

10,178

77th-most career PA

9,045

73rd-most career AB

1,545

59th-most career R

2,665

73rd-most career H

453

107th-most career 2B

163

33rd-most career 3B

RBI

1,440

66th-most career RBI

874

198th-most career BB

613

619

17th-most career SB

.2946

318th-highest career batting average

OBP

.3616

439th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.4050

OPS

.7666

Pitching

G (P)

SHO

SO (P)

BB allowed

ERA

15.750

WHIP

2.7500

K/9

9.00

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
1901-07-08	SF @ CIN Gameday	5	3	4	0	0	2	4	0	10
1901-06-09	SF @ CIN Gameday	6	2	4	3	0	0	2	1	7
1904-07-18	CWS @ MIN Gameday	5	3	3	2	1	0	2	0	7
1906-09-12	BAL @ CWS Gameday	4	4	4	0	1	0	0	0	6
1907-09-20	CWS @ MIN Gameday	5	2	4	2	0	0	0	0	6

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1901-04-19	SF @ ATL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-26	LAD @ SF Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-27	SF @ PHI Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-29	SF @ PHI Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-30	SF @ PHI 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

Hall of Fame, 1998 (Veterans)

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