George Kell

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 9 in · 175 lb

BornAugust 23, 1922 · Swifton, AR, USA

MLB debutSeptember 28, 1943

Final gameSeptember 14, 1957

Seasons15 (1943–1957)

Philadelphia Athletics 1943–1945; Detroit Tigers 1946; Philadelphia Athletics 1946; Detroit Tigers 1947–1951; Boston Red Sox 1952; Detroit Tigers 1952; Boston Red Sox 1953–1954; Chicago White Sox 1954–1955; Baltimore Orioles 1956; Chicago White Sox 1956; Baltimore Orioles 1957

Percentile snapshot

1956 season — qualified batters

123

3.7

480

425

3.7

6.1

115

6.1

41.5

7.3

RBI

14.6

9.8

90.2

73.2

.271

OBP

.324

26.8

SLG

.395

30.5

OPS

.719

wRC+

91.9

23.2

OPS+

95.2

30.5

wOBA

.328

sWAR

1.2

24.4

of 83 qualified 1956 batters (min 477 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

112.5

66.5

OPS+

111.8

sWAR

37.6

97.6

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
1943	1	5	5	1	1	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	.200	.200	.600	.800	114.9	129.3	.353	0.0
1944	139	556	514	51	138	15	3	0	44	22	23	5	2	.268	.300	.309	.609	69.9	74.6	.291	0.1
1945	147	602	567	50	154	30	3	4	56	27	15	2	0	.272	.306	.356	.662	86.6	91.9	.315	1.3
1946	131	577	521	70	168	25	10	4	52	40	20	3	2	.322	.372	.432	.804	121.9	120.1	.374	3.6
1947	152	662	588	75	188	29	5	5	93	61	16	9	11	.320	.387	.412	.798	123.0	120.3	.378	4.3
1948	92	414	368	47	112	24	3	2	44	33	15	2	2	.304	.369	.402	.772	103.6	103.9	.366	1.7
1949	134	612	522	97	179	38	9	3	59	71	13	7	5	.343	.424	.467	.892	139.4	137.3	.422	5.1
1950	157	724	641	114	218	56	6	8	101	66	18	3	3	.340	.403	.484	.886	124.5	124.4	.407	4.7
1951	147	674	598	92	191	36	3	2	59	61	18	10	3	.319	.386	.400	.786	114.3	112.4	.371	3.6
1952	114	483	428	52	133	23	2	7	57	46	23	0	2	.311	.379	.423	.802	120.1	117.6	.376	2.9
1953	134	520	460	68	141	41	2	12	73	52	22	5	2	.307	.383	.483	.866	129.0	127.4	.396	3.7
1954	97	370	326	40	90	13	0	5	58	33	15	1	1	.276	.334	.362	.696	86.2	89.0	.325	0.4
1955	128	504	429	44	134	24	1	8	81	51	36	2	2	.312	.389	.429	.818	123.8	120.7	.382	3.1
1956	123	480	425	52	115	22	2	9	48	33	37	0	1	.271	.324	.395	.719	91.9	95.2	.328	1.2
1957	99	345	310	28	92	9	0	9	44	25	16	2	0	.297	.352	.413	.765	116.7	115.8	.350	1.8

Career totals

1,795

422nd-most career G

7,528

360th-most career PA

6,702

359th-most career AB

881

2,054

266th-most career H

385

238th-most career 2B

RBI

870

439th-most career RBI

621

498th-most career BB

287

.3065

151st-highest career batting average

OBP

.3674

337th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.4138

OPS

.7812

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
1956-07-08	BAL @ BOS Gameday	5	2	4	0	0	2	4	0	10
1950-06-02	DET @ ATH Gameday	7	2	4	1	1	1	3	0	10
1947-08-09	CWS @ DET Gameday	4	2	4	2	0	1	2	1	9
1945-05-11	ATH @ CWS Gameday	4	2	2	0	0	2	3	0	8
1956-08-31	BAL @ BOS Gameday	5	2	2	0	0	2	2	0	8

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1943-04-20	ATH @ MIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1943-04-22	BOS @ ATH Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1943-04-23	BOS @ ATH Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1943-04-24	BOS @ ATH Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1943-04-25	MIN @ ATH 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, 1983 (Veterans)

10× 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.