MLB / Players

George Grantham

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 170 lb

BornMay 20, 1900 · Galena, KS, USA

MLB debutSeptember 20, 1922

Final gameJuly 26, 1934

Seasons13 (1922–1934)

Chicago Cubs 1922–1924; Pittsburgh Pirates 1925–1931; Cincinnati Reds 1932–1933; New York Giants 1934

Percentile snapshot

1932 season — qualified batters

126

560

61.4

493

60.2

70.5

144

61.4

69.3

63.3

68.7

RBI

49.4

78.9

23.5

27.7

.292

51.2

OBP

.364

61.4

SLG

.412

52.4

OPS

.776

wRC+

113.0

64.5

OPS+

110.7

60.2

wOBA

.353

sWAR

2.8

78.9

of 167 qualified 1932 batters (min 480 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

124.3

85.3

OPS+

121.7

81.8

sWAR

33.9

97.1

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
1922	7	24	23	3	4	1	1	0	3	1	3	2	0	.174	.208	.304	.513	22.3	29.8	.233	-0.2
1923	152	665	570	81	160	36	8	8	70	71	92	43	28	.281	.360	.414	.774	105.5	104.3	.360	2.8
1924	127	539	469	85	148	19	6	12	60	55	63	21	21	.316	.390	.458	.848	129.4	127.1	.390	4.0
1925	114	423	359	74	117	24	6	8	52	50	29	14	4	.326	.413	.493	.906	128.2	125.7	.411	2.1
1926	141	522	449	66	143	27	13	8	70	60	42	6	0	.318	.400	.490	.890	136.4	134.7	.409	3.0
1927	151	634	531	96	162	33	11	8	66	74	39	9	0	.305	.396	.454	.850	124.3	121.5	.395	3.9
1928	124	522	440	93	142	24	9	10	85	59	37	9	0	.323	.408	.486	.894	132.4	129.7	.410	2.8
1929	110	457	349	85	107	23	10	12	90	93	38	10	0	.307	.454	.533	.987	144.6	141.7	.446	4.0
1930	146	652	552	120	179	34	14	18	99	81	66	5	0	.324	.413	.534	.947	126.7	126.6	.417	4.5
1931	127	555	465	91	142	26	6	10	46	71	50	5	0	.305	.400	.452	.851	133.4	129.4	.393	3.5
1932	126	560	493	81	144	29	6	6	39	56	40	4	0	.292	.364	.412	.776	113.0	110.7	.353	2.8
1933	87	307	260	32	53	14	3	4	28	38	21	4	0	.204	.310	.327	.637	85.4	82.4	.306	0.5
1934	32	37	29	5	7	2	0	1	4	8	6	0	0	.241	.405	.414	.819	132.2	124.8	.385	0.2

Career totals

1,444

5,897

4,989

912

466th-most career R

1,508

292

200th-most career 3B

105

RBI

712

717

359th-most career BB

526

132

.3023

195th-highest career batting average

OBP

.3924

104th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.4612

377th-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.8536

184th-highest career OPS

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
1925-06-22	PIT @ STL Gameday	4	4	4	1	0	2	6	1	11
1929-07-10	PIT @ PHI Gameday	4	4	3	0	0	2	5	1	9
1930-09-16	PIT @ PHI Gameday	4	2	3	0	0	2	5	2	9
1929-05-27	PIT @ STL Gameday	5	3	3	0	0	2	4	0	9
1924-04-20	CHC @ CIN Gameday	4	2	3	1	1	1	1	0	9

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1922-04-12	CHC @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1922-04-13	CHC @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1922-04-15	CHC @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1922-04-16	CHC @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1922-04-17	CHC @ STL 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.