George Shively

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at5 ft 8 in · 150 lb

BornJanuary 3, 1893 · Lebanon, KY, USA

Seasons14 (1911–1924)

West Baden Sprudels 1911–1913; Indianapolis ABCs 1914–1918; Atlantic City Bacharach Giants 1919; Indianapolis ABCs 1920; Atlantic City Bacharach Giants 1920; Indianapolis ABCs 1921; Atlantic City Bacharach Giants 1921; New York Bacharach Giants 1922; Indianapolis ABCs 1923; Atlantic City Bacharach Giants 1924; Washington Potomacs 1924

Percentile snapshot

1924 season — qualified batters

33.3

279

37.4

249

38.5

35.6

33.9

2.9

14.9

17.2

RBI

25.9

52.9

56.3

54.6

59.8

.293

45.4

OBP

.365

SLG

.337

18.4

OPS

.702

29.3

wRC+

95.8

39.7

OPS+

91.4

33.3

wOBA

.339

35.6

sWAR

0.7

31.6

of 175 qualified 1924 batters (min 210 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

11.9

88.7

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
1911	3	14	13	5	6	1	0	0	1	1	0	3	.462	.500	.538	1.038	191.6	213.3	.493	0.2
1912	5	22	20	4	7	2	1	0	2	1	0	1	.350	.381	.550	.931	156.4	172.3	.430	0.2
1913	12	59	51	12	17	2	2	0	4	7	0	0	.333	.424	.451	.875	142.5	144.8	.416	0.5
1914	54	241	216	46	74	16	3	3	25	20	0	25	.343	.408	.486	.894	138.9	148.2	.418	2.3
1915	59	262	225	59	67	9	2	2	27	30	0	25	.298	.385	.382	.767	134.1	139.7	.380	1.8
1916	40	168	150	34	50	7	2	0	13	12	0	19	.333	.394	.407	.801	135.5	141.4	.394	1.3
1917	21	91	86	11	24	0	3	1	6	4	0	4	.279	.311	.384	.695	120.2	127.7	.339	0.5
1918	41	185	165	41	54	5	0	2	19	13	0	11	.327	.376	.394	.770	119.4	126.1	.376	1.0
1919	19	86	72	14	16	1	1	0	6	10	0	4	.222	.325	.264	.589	87.4	79.9	.306	0.1
1920	35	158	137	24	39	2	4	0	12	16	0	9	.285	.364	.358	.721	118.6	119.9	.358	0.8
1921	61	276	230	60	71	5	1	0	20	32	6	11	.309	.402	.339	.741	100.7	94.7	.360	0.8
1922	47	210	183	37	55	10	1	0	15	21	3	4	.301	.382	.366	.748	115.2	113.4	.360	0.9
1923	72	330	297	60	89	7	10	0	30	25	0	4	.300	.358	.391	.749	96.2	95.2	.350	0.7
1924	63	279	249	43	73	4	2	1	29	28	2	8	.293	.365	.337	.702	95.8	91.4	.339	0.7

Career totals

532

2,381

2,094

450

642

RBI

209

220

128

.3066

OBP

.3782

SLG

.3840

OPS

.7622

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	RBI	BB	TB
1923-05-07	ABC @ TOL Gameday	6	4	3	0	2	5	0	7
1923-05-27	CUB @ ABC Gameday	4	1	2	0	2	2	1	6
1923-05-23	MIL @ ABC Gameday	4	1	2	1	1	0	0	5
1923-06-07	ABC @ SLS Gameday	5	2	4	0	0	2	0	4
1920-05-25	ABC @ SLS Gameday	5	1	4	0	0	0	0	4

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1920-05-02	CHG @ ABC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1920-05-02	CHG @ ABC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1920-05-09	CUB @ ABC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1920-05-09	CUB @ ABC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1920-05-10	CUB @ ABC 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.