George Van Haltren

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 170 lb

BornMarch 30, 1866 · St. Louis, MO, USA

MLB debutJune 27, 1887

Final gameSeptember 26, 1903

Seasons17 (1887–1903)

Chicago White Stockings 1887–1889; Brooklyn Ward's Wonders 1890; Baltimore Orioles 1891–1892; Pittsburgh Pirates 1892–1893; New York Giants 1894–1903

Percentile snapshot

1901 season — qualified batters

135

64.1

605

70.7

543

71.7

51.1

182

60.9

26.1

RBI

20.7

57.6

.335

89.1

OBP

.396

84.8

SLG

.405

OPS

.801

wRC+

132.6

82.6

OPS+

132.9

81.5

wOBA

.384

77.2

sWAR

4.8

90.2

of 93 qualified 1901 batters (min 437 PA) · 1 stat not shown: every qualified player held the same value, so a percentile there carries no information

1890 season — qualified pitchers

31.7

30.5

40.2

79.3

35.4

SHO

272

57.3

106

53.7

64.6

12.2

32.9

223.0

35.4

ERA

4.28

23.2

WHIP

1.619

19.5

K/9

1.94

FIP

4.46

17.1

FIP-

105.4

31.7

ERA+

98.8

32.9

sWAR

4.4

65.9

of 83 qualified 1890 pitchers (min 133 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

117.9

76.2

OPS+

121.4

81.5

sWAR

54.8

99.2

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
1887	45	188	172	30	35	4	0	3	17	15	15	12	.203	.271	.279	.550	64.6	52.9	.261	1.5
1888	81	340	318	46	90	9	14	4	34	22	34	21	.283	.329	.437	.767	133.4	142.1	.351	2.9
1889	134	630	543	126	175	20	10	9	81	82	41	28	.322	.416	.446	.862	133.2	139.5	.412	4.3
1890	92	420	376	84	126	8	9	5	54	41	23	35	.335	.405	.444	.849	119.9	126.1	.403	4.4
1891	139	641	566	136	180	14	15	9	83	71	46	75	.318	.398	.443	.841	130.2	140.2	.407	4.4
1892	148	689	611	115	179	22	14	7	62	76	34	55	.293	.373	.409	.782	129.0	136.1	.379	3.9
1893	124	606	529	129	179	14	11	3	79	75	25	37	.338	.422	.423	.846	121.8	124.8	.410	3.8
1894	139	600	528	109	175	22	4	7	105	55	23	43	.331	.399	.428	.827	100.3	99.1	.388	2.1
1895	131	587	521	113	177	23	19	8	103	57	29	32	.340	.408	.503	.911	126.0	133.8	.424	3.8
1896	133	623	562	136	197	18	21	5	74	55	36	39	.351	.410	.484	.894	128.6	135.1	.420	4.8
1897	130	615	566	119	186	22	9	3	64	42	25	50	.329	.376	.415	.791	106.7	108.6	.376	2.7
1898	156	722	654	129	204	28	16	2	68	59	40	36	.312	.372	.413	.785	120.9	124.5	.380	4.5
1899	152	687	607	118	183	22	3	2	58	75	35	31	.301	.379	.357	.737	105.0	102.3	.362	2.9
1900	141	635	571	114	180	30	7	1	51	50	26	45	.315	.371	.398	.769	111.0	112.1	.368	3.3
1901	135	605	543	82	182	23	6	1	47	51	40	24	.335	.396	.405	.801	132.6	132.9	.384	4.8
1902	26	113	96	14	24	1	2	0	7	17	9	6	.250	.363	.302	.665	113.5	105.5	.342	0.5
1903	84	316	280	42	72	6	1	0	28	28	17	14	.257	.327	.286	.613	78.7	74.0	.306	0.3

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1887	20	18	11	7	1	18	1	177	69	66	76	8	161.0	3.86	1.509	4.25	4.32	106.8	104.9	1.5
1888	30	24	13	13	1	24	4	263	96	60	139	15	245.7	3.52	1.315	5.09	3.01	106.5	80.5	2.9
1890	28	25	15	10	2	23	0	272	106	89	48	8	223.0	4.28	1.619	1.94	4.46	105.4	98.8	4.4
1891	6	1	0	1	0	0	0	38	13	10	7	1	23.0	5.09	2.087	2.74	4.44	119.7	72.9	4.4
1892	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	28	15	7	5	1	14.7	9.20	2.386	3.07	4.07	124.0	35.7	3.9
1895	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	13	7	2	1	0	5.0	12.60	3.000	1.80	5.58	116.9	37.9	3.8
1896	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	5	2	1	3	1	8.0	2.25	.750	3.38	4.54	104.2	193.7	4.8
1900	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	3	0	0	3.0	0.00	1.333	0.00	5.83	157.7	—	3.3
1901	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	12	2	6	2	0	6.0	3.00	3.000	3.00	5.77	174.5	110.2	4.8

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

1,990

264th-most career G

9,017

165th-most career PA

8,043

151st-most career AB

1,642

38th-most career R

2,544

95th-most career H

286

161

38th-most career 3B

RBI

1,015

293rd-most career RBI

871

202nd-most career BB

498

583

21st-most career SB

.3163

81st-highest career batting average

OBP

.3857

147th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.4176

OPS

.8033

472nd-highest career OPS

Pitching

G (P)

SHO

689

SO (P)

281

BB allowed

244

ERA

4.047

WHIP

1.5276

K/9

3.67

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	TB
1901-06-09	SF @ CIN Gameday	7	5	5	2	0	2	7
1901-06-03	SF @ STL Gameday	5	3	5	1	0	0	6
1901-06-29	CHC @ SF Gameday	5	3	4	1	0	1	5
1901-05-23	CIN @ SF Gameday	5	1	3	0	1	2	5
1901-06-18	SF @ LAD Gameday	6	0	3	0	1	0	5

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
1901-08-28	SF @ PHI Gameday	6.0	12	10	2	6	3
1901-04-19	SF @ ATL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-26	LAD @ SF Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-27	SF @ PHI Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-29	SF @ PHI 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.