George Scales

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 195 lb

BornAugust 16, 1900 · Talladega, AL, USA

Final gameSeptember 3, 1946

Seasons25 (1921–1946)

St. Louis Giants 1921; St. Louis Stars 1922; New York Lincoln Giants 1923; St. Louis Stars 1923; New York Lincoln Giants 1924–1926; Newark Stars 1926; New York Lincoln Giants 1927–1928; Homestead Grays 1929; New York Lincoln Giants 1929; Homestead Grays 1930–1931; New York Black Yankees 1932–1934; Homestead Grays 1935; New York Black Yankees 1936; Baltimore Elite Giants 1938; New York Black Yankees 1939; Baltimore Elite Giants 1940–1944; New York Black Yankees 1945; Baltimore Elite Giants 1946

Percentile snapshot

1943 season — qualified batters

22.5

148

18.1

121

13.8

24.6

12.3

31.2

51.4

RBI

26.1

36.2

70.3

5.1

31.9

.264

41.3

OBP

.395

85.5

SLG

.471

87.7

OPS

.866

89.9

wRC+

123.9

73.9

OPS+

130.8

81.2

wOBA

.409

88.4

sWAR

0.9

42.8

of 139 qualified 1943 batters (min 114 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

142.3

OPS+

148.8

97.7

sWAR

31.1

96.7

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
1921	12	47	44	5	10	2	1	0	6	2	1	0	.227	.261	.318	.579	64.1	63.0	.273	0.0
1922	26	95	80	10	15	7	0	1	11	10	0	0	.188	.278	.313	.590	65.2	58.4	.281	-0.1
1923	62	249	198	50	78	13	9	13	57	43	0	7	.394	.502	.747	1.250	200.7	226.2	.547	4.2
1924	57	238	204	39	69	13	2	7	41	29	0	12	.338	.423	.525	.948	148.2	156.1	.436	2.4
1925	30	127	105	21	37	8	0	5	33	21	0	2	.352	.460	.571	1.032	157.7	165.5	.465	1.5
1926	30	128	107	20	30	4	2	3	20	14	2	1	.280	.384	.439	.823	122.1	124.8	.391	0.9
1927	28	115	93	25	39	11	1	2	30	20	0	4	.419	.526	.624	1.150	189.5	200.7	.524	1.8
1928	34	142	119	24	39	12	3	5	27	18	0	8	.328	.416	.605	1.021	149.8	160.4	.452	1.4
1929	68	296	243	61	93	24	3	8	72	41	1	8	.383	.486	.605	1.091	156.1	165.0	.493	3.3
1930	55	239	196	52	78	21	6	2	40	38	5	4	.398	.496	.597	1.093	144.4	149.3	.485	2.7
1931	48	199	173	37	55	11	9	4	41	19	1	2	.318	.389	.555	.944	146.2	155.9	.422	2.2
1932	28	121	106	19	36	7	2	1	25	12	0	2	.340	.407	.472	.878	124.0	127.6	.406	1.0
1933	16	64	55	8	20	5	0	0	8	8	0	0	.364	.444	.455	.899	137.7	140.2	.424	0.6
1934	21	82	71	11	22	8	1	0	13	10	0	2	.310	.395	.451	.846	138.2	140.1	.385	0.7
1935	33	124	106	25	28	9	1	4	23	17	1	1	.264	.366	.481	.847	109.6	111.9	.382	0.6
1936	33	140	120	24	43	5	2	5	30	15	1	2	.358	.434	.558	.992	144.2	151.7	.448	1.3
1938	28	105	82	19	22	2	1	1	11	20	1	3	.268	.412	.354	.765	111.0	103.8	.373	0.7
1939	21	75	58	8	18	4	1	3	14	12	1	0	.310	.444	.569	1.013	155.8	167.2	.459	0.8
1940	49	179	142	37	50	15	1	4	39	32	2	1	.352	.483	.556	1.039	160.4	170.0	.479	2.1
1941	37	110	92	21	28	8	1	2	25	17	4	0	.304	.413	.478	.891	142.4	149.2	.411	0.9
1942	49	194	160	26	41	12	1	3	24	25	8	1	.256	.358	.400	.758	114.2	116.0	.364	0.8
1943	42	148	121	27	32	10	3	3	23	24	0	1	.264	.395	.471	.866	123.9	130.8	.409	0.9
1944	14	50	41	7	16	3	0	0	6	7	0	0	.390	.479	.463	.943	151.9	153.2	.450	0.5
1945	17	61	51	4	13	1	1	0	3	8	1	0	.255	.350	.314	.664	91.8	86.7	.327	0.0
1946	15	26	24	3	6	1	1	0	7	2	0	1	.250	.308	.375	.683	88.7	90.1	.325	0.0

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1938	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	1	2	0	2.7	0.00	1.125	6.75	3.59	71.0	—	0.7
1939	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	2	1	0	0	1.3	13.50	3.000	0.00	6.03	124.5	35.9	0.8

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

853

3,354

2,791

583

918

216

RBI

629

464

.3289

41st-highest career batting average

OBP

.4287

13th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.5253

61st-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.9540

25th-highest career OPS

Pitching

G (P)

SHO

SO (P)

BB allowed

ERA

4.500

WHIP

1.7500

K/9

4.50

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
1943-05-30	HOM @ BEG Gameday	5	3	4	1	0	2	4	0	11
1935-05-13	HOM @ ND Gameday	5	3	3	0	1	2	5	0	11
1923-06-05	ABC @ SLS Gameday	4	2	4	0	0	2	3	0	10
1923-08-13	MIL @ SLS Gameday	3	4	3	0	0	2	4	1	9
1940-06-02	NBY @ BEG Gameday	4	1	3	1	1	1	4	0	9

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
1938-08-14	BEG @ PHS Gameday	2.2	2	0	0	1	2
1939-07-22	NBY @ PHS Gameday	1.1	3	2	2	1	0
1921-04-30	SLS @ KCM Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0
1921-05-01	SLS @ KCM Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0
1921-05-02	SLS @ KCM Gameday	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

1× 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.