George Walker
Homestead Grays 1937; Kansas City Monarchs 1939–1941; Kansas City Monarchs 1943
Percentile snapshot
1940 season — qualified pitchers
of 95 qualified 1940 pitchers (min 52 IP)
Career, era-adjusted
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1937 | 9 | 16 | 16 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .250 | .250 | .250 | .500 | 34.8 | 29.3 | .228 | 0.2 |
| 1939 | 22 | 33 | 30 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .133 | .161 | .200 | .361 | 8.6 | 4.7 | .173 | 2.5 |
| 1940 | 9 | 26 | 23 | 5 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .304 | .304 | .304 | .609 | 80.4 | 83.6 | .295 | 2.2 |
| 1941 | 6 | 12 | 11 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .091 | .167 | .091 | .258 | -6.2 | -22.9 | .144 | 0.6 |
| 1943 | 14 | 16 | 15 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .200 | .250 | .200 | .450 | 45.4 | 38.7 | .227 | 0.5 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1937 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 48 | 23 | 14 | 22 | 2 | 39.0 | 5.31 | 1.590 | 5.08 | 4.65 | 93.1 | 94.0 | 0.2 |
| 1939 | 21 | 8 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 76 | 21 | 20 | 62 | 4 | 89.7 | 2.11 | 1.071 | 6.22 | 3.58 | 90.3 | 187.8 | 2.5 |
| 1940 | 9 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 31 | 7 | 7 | 40 | 2 | 52.0 | 1.21 | .731 | 6.92 | 3.21 | 77.8 | 340.9 | 2.2 |
| 1941 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 25 | 8 | 6 | 13 | 0 | 28.3 | 2.54 | 1.094 | 4.13 | 3.62 | 97.4 | 146.1 | 0.6 |
| 1943 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 32 | 14 | 7 | 18 | 0 | 36.7 | 3.44 | 1.064 | 4.42 | 3.08 | 81.9 | 109.5 | 0.5 |
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
Pitching
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1940-05-23 | MEM @ KCM Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 1940-05-12 | KCM @ BBB Gameday | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 1937-08-15 | HOM @ NE Gameday | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1943-07-01 | KCM @ BBB Gameday | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1939-07-09 | HSL @ KCM Gameday | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1939-07-20 | KCM @ CAG Gameday | 9.0 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 1 |
| 1940-06-02 | KCM @ JRC Gameday | 9.0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 |
| 1940-08-02 | KCM @ TIC Gameday | 5.1 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 1 |
| 1940-06-09 | CAG @ KCM Gameday | 9.0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 0 |
| 1941-06-14 | KCM @ CAG Gameday | 9.0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 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.