George Burns

George Joseph Burns

Position: Outfielder
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 7", Weight: 160 lb.

Born: November 24, 1889 in Utica, NY (All Transactions)
Debut: October 3, 1911
Teams (by GP): Giants/Reds/Phillies 1911-1925

Final Game: September 4, 1925
Died: August 15, 1966 in Gloversville, NY
Buried: Mount Carmel Cemetery, Johnstown, NY
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Standard Fielding

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos	G	GS	CG	Inn	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	lgFld%	lgRF9	lgRFG	G	Awards
1911	NYG	NL	21	OF	6				7	7	0	0	0	1.000		1.17	.960		2.15	1-4-1
1912	NYG	NL	22	OF	23				27	24	3	0	1	1.000		1.17	.956		2.24	13-5-5
1913	NYG	NL	23	OF	150				356	321	22	13	1	.963		2.29	.960		2.21	119-0-32	MVP-24
1914	NYG	NL	24	OF	154				363	326	19	18	5	.950		2.24	.957		2.13	102-0-54	MVP-4
1915	NYG	NL	25	OF	155				303	278	13	12	4	.960		1.88	.959		2.12	140-0-15
1916	NYG	NL	26	OF	155				320	289	19	12	3	.963		1.99	.967		2.15	155-0-0
1917	NYG	NL	27	OF	152				350	325	16	9	4	.974		2.24	.963		2.20	152-0-0
1918	NYG	NL	28	OF	119	119	114		313	292	10	11	1	.965		2.54	.962		2.26	119-0-0
1918	NYG	NL	28	LF	67	67	62		164	147	9	8	1	.951		2.33	.965		2.22
1918	NYG	NL	28	CF	52	52	52		146	142	1	3	0	.979		2.75	.960		2.71
1919	NYG	NL	29	LF	139	139	132		308	290	15	3	4	.990		2.19	.966		2.21
1919	NYG	NL	29	OF	139	139	132		308	290	15	3	4	.990		2.19	.964		2.26
1919	NYG	NL	29	RF	2	0	0		0	0	0	0	0			0.00			2.00
1920	NYG	NL	30	LF	154	154	152		353	336	11	6	5	.983		2.25	.967		2.18
1920	NYG	NL	30	OF	154	154	152		353	336	11	6	5	.983		2.25	.964		2.34
1921	NYG	NL	31	OF	149	149	141		387	360	16	11	2	.972		2.52	.965		2.40
1921	NYG	NL	31	LF	90	90	89		223	210	7	6	0	.973		2.41	.963		2.35
1921	NYG	NL	31	CF	59	59	52		164	150	9	5	2	.970		2.69	.967		2.78
1921	NYG	NL	31	3B	1	0	0		1	0	1	0	0	1.000		1.00	.940		3.10
1922	CIN	NL	32	OF	156	156	155		416	386	20	10	3	.976		2.60	.962		2.40
1922	CIN	NL	32	CF	109	109	109		299	280	12	7	2	.977		2.68	.970		2.82
1922	CIN	NL	32	RF	47	47	46		117	106	8	3	1	.974		2.43	.955		2.18
1923	CIN	NL	33	OF	154	154	152		352	327	11	14	3	.960		2.19	.964		2.44
1923	CIN	NL	33	RF	150	150	148		341	316	11	14	3	.959		2.18	.958		2.18
1923	CIN	NL	33	CF	4	4	4		11	11	0	0	0	1.000		2.75	.968		2.90
1924	CIN	NL	34	OF	90	81	72		188	168	13	7	4	.963		2.01	.965		2.39
1924	CIN	NL	34	RF	76	68	60		155	140	9	6	4	.961		1.96	.966		2.06
1924	CIN	NL	34	LF	14	10	9		23	19	3	1	0	.957		1.57	.964		2.26
1924	CIN	NL	34	CF	3	3	3		10	9	1	0	0	1.000		3.33	.965		2.87
1925	PHI	NL	35	OF	88	84	68		200	189	9	2	2	.990		2.25	.967		2.48
1925	PHI	NL	35	LF	67	62	54		157	150	5	2	1	.987		2.31	.967		2.26
1925	PHI	NL	35	RF	23	21	13		43	39	4	0	1	1.000		1.87	.967		2.27
1925	PHI	NL	35	CF	3	1	1		0	0	0	0	0			0.00			2.93
	15 Seasons			OF	1844	1036	986		4243	3918	197	128	42	.970		2.23	.963		2.28	1332-239-405
	6 Seasons (incomplete)			LF	531	522	498		1228	1152	50	26	11	.979		2.26	.966		2.23
	5 Seasons (incomplete)			RF	298	286	267		656	601	32	23	9	.965		2.12	.960		2.16
	6 Seasons (incomplete)			CF	230	228	221		630	592	23	15	4	.976		2.67	.967		2.79
	1 Season			3B	1	0	0		1	0	1	0	0	1.000		1.00	.940		3.10
	15 Seasons			TOT	1845	1036	986		4244	3918	198	128	42	.970		2.23	.963		2.28	1332-239-405
Lg				Pos	G	GS	CG	Inn	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	lgFld%	lgRF9	lgRFG	G	Awards

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Leagues historically made no effort to balance team, league, and player fielding stats. Since 1990 or so, computers have made this feasible, but prior to that there are hundreds or thousands of discrepancies each year in games played (even whether a player played a position), putouts, assists, double plays and errors.

Pre-1948 SB & CS data for catchers is estimated from catcher assists, games started and opposition stolen bases.
From 1948 on SB, CS, Pickoff, & WP data for catchers and pitchers is taken from play-by-play accounts in the retrosheet files. There are several hundred games without pbp from 1948 to 1973 and for those we may not have any data.
CG & GS come from the retrosheet data and should be complete and pretty accurate from 1918 on.
Innings played (like SB and CS) come from the retrosheet play-by-play data and should be considered mostly complete from 1948 to 1973 and complete from then on.
Stats (PO,A,G, etc) for LF-CF-RF positions (since 1918) is taken from play-by-play or box score data as available.
Stats (PO,A,G,etc) for C,P,1B,2B,3B,SS,OF positions is taken from the official reported totals and may have been corrected at various times since their publication.
For detailed information on which games retrosheet is missing play-by-play from 1948 to 1973, please see their most wanted games list
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Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	GS	Batting	Defense	3B	LF	CF	RF	OF	PH	PR
1911	NYG	NL	21	6		6		0	1	4	1	6
1912	NYG	NL	22	29		29		0	13	5	5	23
1913	NYG	NL	23	150		150		0	119	0	32	150
1914	NYG	NL	24	154		154		0	102	0	54	154
1915	NYG	NL	25	155		155		0	140	0	15	155
1916	NYG	NL	26	155		155		0	155	0	0	155
1917	NYG	NL	27	152		152		0	152	0	0	152
1918	NYG	NL	28	119		119		0	119	0	0	119
1919	NYG	NL	29	139	139	139	139	0	139	0	2	139	0	0
1920	NYG	NL	30	154	154	154	154	0	154	0	0	154	0	0
1921	NYG	NL	31	149	149	149	149	1	90	59	0	149	0	0
1922	CIN	NL	32	156	156	156	156	0	0	109	47	156	0	0
1923	CIN	NL	33	154	154	154	154	0	0	4	150	154	0	0
1924	CIN	NL	34	93	81	93	90	0	14	3	76	90	3	0
1925	PHI	NL	35	88	84	88	88	0	67	3	23	88	0	0
	15 Seasons			1853	917	1853	930	1	1265	187	405	1844	3	0

Appearances table is calculated solely from full RetroSheet play-by-play data available from 1973 on. A combination of RetroSheet (starting with the 1918 season) and non-RetroSheet data is used for other seasons.

Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

Hall of Fame 1937 BBWAA ( 1.5%) 1938 BBWAA ( 1.1%) 1939 BBWAA ( 0.4%) 1949 BBWAA ( 0.7%) 1950 BBWAA ( 1.2%)	MVP (yr lg (rk, shr)) 1913 NL (24, 3%) 1914 NL (4, 48%) 0.51 Career Shares (438th)	Def. Games as LF (s.1954) s c a p y 1919 NL 139 (1st) 1920 NL 154 (1st)	Putouts as LF (s.1954) s c a p y 1919 NL 290 (2nd) 1920 NL 336 (1st)
Assists as LF (s.1954) s c a p y 1919 NL 15 (2nd)	Errors Committed as LF (s.1954) s c a p y 1918 NL 8 (2nd)	Def. Games as RF (s.1954) s c a p y 1923 NL 150 (3rd)	Putouts as RF (s.1954) s c a p y 1923 NL 316 (2nd)
Assists as RF (s.1954) s c a p y 1924 NL 9 (5th)	Errors Committed as RF (s.1954) s c a p y 1923 NL 14 (3rd) 1924 NL 6 (4th)	Def. Games as OF s c a p y 1913 NL 150 (3rd) 1914 NL 154 (1st) 1915 NL 155 (3rd) 1916 NL 155 (1st) 1917 NL 152 (3rd) 1919 NL 139 (1st) 1920 NL 154 (1st) 1921 NL 149 (2nd) 1922 NL 156 (1st) 1923 NL 154 (1st) Career 1,844 (76th)	Putouts as OF s c a p y 1913 NL 321 (5th) 1914 NL 326 (2nd) 1917 NL 325 (5th) 1918 NL 292 (5th) 1921 NL 360 (5th) 1922 NL 386 (3rd) 1923 NL 327 (5th) Career 3,918 (79th)
Assists as OF s c a p y 1913 NL 22 (4th) 1922 NL 20 (5th) Career 197 (53rd)	Errors Committed as OF s c a p y 1913 NL 13 (3rd) 1914 NL 18 (3rd) 1916 NL 12 (3rd) 1918 NL 11 (5th)	Range Factor/Game as LF (s.1954) s c a p y 1918 NL 2.33 (3rd) 1919 NL 2.19 (2nd) 1920 NL 2.25 (4th) 1921 NL 2.41 (4th) Career 2.26 (16th)	Fielding % as LF (s.1954) s c a p y 1919 NL .990 (1st) 1920 NL .983 (1st) 1921 NL .973 (2nd) Career .979 (88th)
Range Factor/Game as CF (s.1954) s c a p y 1922 NL 2.68 (5th)	Fielding % as CF (s.1954) s c a p y 1922 NL .977 (2nd)	Range Factor/Game as RF (s.1954) s c a p y 1923 NL 2.18 (4th)	Fielding % as RF (s.1954) s c a p y 1923 NL .959 (4th)
Fielding % as OF s c a p y 1919 NL .990 (1st) 1920 NL .983 (3rd) 1922 NL .976 (5th) 1925 NL .990 (1st)

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