MLB / Players

George Selkirk

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 182 lb

BornJanuary 4, 1908 · Huntsville, ON, CAN

MLB debutAugust 12, 1934

Final gameSeptember 27, 1942

Seasons9 (1934–1942)

New York Yankees 1934–1942

Percentile snapshot

1939 season — qualified batters

128

33.3

537

36.8

418

20.7

103

80.5

128

21.8

19.5

28.7

87.4

RBI

101

83.9

103

95.4

80.5

18.4

.306

56.3

OBP

.452

98.9

SLG

.517

86.2

OPS

.969

88.5

wRC+

153.8

OPS+

153.1

87.4

wOBA

.444

90.8

sWAR

4.8

87.4

of 88 qualified 1939 batters (min 471 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

129.4

89.9

OPS+

128.8

89.5

sWAR

19.3

93.3

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
1934	46	192	176	23	55	7	1	5	38	15	17	1	1	.313	.370	.449	.819	116.2	118.3	.377	0.8
1935	128	541	491	64	153	29	12	11	94	44	36	2	7	.312	.372	.487	.859	125.5	128.5	.390	2.9
1936	137	592	493	93	152	28	9	18	107	94	60	13	7	.308	.420	.511	.931	133.9	135.1	.424	3.9
1937	78	293	256	49	84	13	5	18	68	34	24	8	2	.328	.411	.629	1.040	154.6	158.5	.455	2.7
1938	99	407	335	58	85	12	5	10	62	68	52	9	4	.254	.384	.409	.793	106.1	102.5	.373	1.2
1939	128	537	418	103	128	17	4	21	101	103	49	12	5	.306	.452	.517	.969	153.8	153.1	.444	4.8
1940	118	470	379	68	102	17	5	19	71	84	43	3	6	.269	.406	.491	.896	134.5	132.3	.406	3.0
1941	70	195	164	30	36	5	0	6	25	28	30	1	0	.220	.340	.360	.700	91.7	88.7	.334	0.2
1942	42	95	78	15	15	3	0	0	10	16	8	0	0	.192	.330	.231	.561	72.4	62.5	.293	-0.1

Career totals

846

3,322

2,790

503

810

131

108

RBI

576

486

319

.2903

399th-highest career batting average

OBP

.3998

67th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.4828

206th-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.8826

101st-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	TB
1937-05-05	NYY @ DET Gameday	4	3	4	1	0	2	4	11
1940-09-22	BOS @ NYY Gameday	4	2	3	1	0	2	4	10
1937-06-27	DET @ NYY Gameday	5	2	4	0	1	1	4	9
1936-09-11	NYY @ DET Gameday	5	3	4	2	0	1	2	9
1935-08-10	ATH @ NYY Gameday	6	2	3	0	0	2	8	9

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1934-04-17	NYY @ ATH Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1934-04-18	NYY @ ATH Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1934-04-19	NYY @ ATH Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1934-04-21	NYY @ BOS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1934-04-22	NYY @ BOS 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

2× 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.