George Harper

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 8 in · 167 lb

BornJune 24, 1892 · Arlington, KY, USA

MLB debutApril 15, 1916

Final gameSeptember 28, 1929

Seasons11 (1916–1929)

Detroit Tigers 1916–1918; Cincinnati Reds 1922–1924; Philadelphia Phillies 1924–1926; New York Giants 1927–1928; St. Louis Cardinals 1928; Boston Braves 1929

Percentile snapshot

1929 season — qualified batters

136

58.5

538

54.3

457

52.4

42.7

133

56.7

37.2

71.3

RBI

59.1

86.6

26.2

34.8

.291

32.9

OBP

.389

58.5

SLG

.433

48.8

OPS

.822

wRC+

108.3

OPS+

105.8

51.8

wOBA

.378

53.7

sWAR

1.7

49.4

of 165 qualified 1929 batters (min 477 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

118.9

77.4

OPS+

116.7

74.2

sWAR

17.8

92.5

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
1916	44	62	56	4	9	1	0	0	3	5	8	0	0	.161	.230	.179	.408	14.8	20.9	.213	-0.5
1917	47	136	117	6	24	3	0	0	12	11	15	2	0	.205	.290	.231	.521	59.7	57.9	.270	-0.3
1918	69	258	227	19	55	5	2	0	16	18	14	3	0	.242	.301	.282	.583	75.6	77.9	.293	-0.2
1922	128	482	430	67	146	22	8	2	68	35	22	11	10	.340	.397	.442	.839	121.0	120.0	.388	2.4
1923	61	139	125	14	32	4	2	3	16	11	9	0	2	.256	.316	.392	.708	88.3	89.7	.327	0.2
1924	137	553	485	75	141	29	6	16	58	51	28	11	14	.291	.366	.474	.841	113.2	111.8	.382	2.2
1925	132	542	495	86	173	35	7	18	97	28	32	10	8	.349	.391	.558	.949	127.0	127.2	.420	3.4
1926	56	216	194	32	61	6	5	7	38	16	7	6	0	.314	.367	.505	.872	123.0	124.0	.395	1.1
1927	145	593	483	85	160	19	6	16	87	84	27	7	0	.331	.435	.495	.930	152.7	149.6	.431	5.1
1928	118	408	329	52	96	9	2	19	65	61	19	3	0	.292	.407	.505	.912	139.0	136.8	.416	2.8
1929	136	538	457	65	133	25	5	10	68	69	27	5	0	.291	.389	.433	.822	108.3	105.8	.378	1.7

Career totals

1,073

3,927

3,398

505

1,030

158

RBI

528

389

208

.3031

181st-highest career batting average

OBP

.3804

180th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.4553

432nd-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.8357

255th-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
1928-09-20	STL @ SF Gameday	4	3	3	0	0	3	5	1	12
1926-06-30	PHI @ LAD Gameday	5	2	3	0	0	2	5	0	9
1925-06-30	LAD @ PHI Gameday	3	2	3	1	1	1	3	1	9
1927-10-02	PHI @ SF Gameday	4	2	3	0	0	2	2	0	9
1928-07-03	CHC @ STL Gameday	4	2	4	1	0	1	1	0	8

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1916-04-12	DET @ CWS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1916-04-13	DET @ CWS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1916-04-14	DET @ CWS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1916-04-15	DET @ CWS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1916-04-16	DET @ CLE 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.