George Case

George Washington Case

Position: Outfielder
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 0", Weight: 183 lb.

Born: November 11, 1915 in Trenton, NJ
High School: The Peddie School (Hightstown, NJ)(All Transactions)
Debut: September 8, 1937
Teams (by GP): Senators/Indians 1937-1947

Final Game: August 3, 1947
Died: January 23, 1989 in Trenton, NJ
Buried: First Presbyterian Church Of Ewing, Trenton, NJ
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All-Star

Standard Fielding

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos	G	GS	CG	Inn	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	lgFld%	lgRF9	lgRFG	Awards
1937	WSH	AL	21	OF	22	22	20		55	51	1	3	0	.945		2.36	.969		2.35
1937	WSH	AL	21	RF	14	14	12		37	33	1	3	0	.919		2.43	.964		2.04
1937	WSH	AL	21	LF	8	8	8		18	18	0	0	0	1.000		2.25	.966		2.16
1937	WSH	AL	21	CF	1	0	0		0	0	0	0	0			0.00			2.80
1938	WSH	AL	22	OF	101	95	92		222	207	7	8	2	.964		2.12	.972		2.35
1938	WSH	AL	22	RF	82	78	76		170	156	6	8	2	.953		1.98	.972		2.06
1938	WSH	AL	22	CF	20	17	16		52	51	1	0	0	1.000		2.60	.972		2.82
1939	WSH	AL	23	OF	123	123	120		355	332	7	16	2	.955		2.76	.969		2.44	AS,MVP-31
1939	WSH	AL	23	CF	78	77	77		235	218	5	12	1	.949		2.86	.977		2.87	AS,MVP-31
1939	WSH	AL	23	RF	39	39	37		105	100	2	3	1	.971		2.62	.962		2.08	AS,MVP-31
1939	WSH	AL	23	LF	7	7	6		15	14	0	1	0	.933		2.00	.966		2.39	AS,MVP-31
1940	WSH	AL	24	OF	154	153	151		406	384	10	12	0	.970		2.56	.970		2.40
1940	WSH	AL	24	CF	116	116	114		315	298	8	9	0	.971		2.64	.976		2.78
1940	WSH	AL	24	RF	36	36	36		82	77	2	3	0	.963		2.19	.970		2.09
1940	WSH	AL	24	LF	2	1	1		9	9	0	0	0	1.000		4.50	.963		2.35
1941	WSH	AL	25	OF	151	151	148		393	362	21	10	3	.975		2.54	.973		2.41
1941	WSH	AL	25	LF	115	115	113		314	289	16	9	2	.971		2.65	.975		2.31
1941	WSH	AL	25	RF	36	36	35		79	73	5	1	1	.987		2.17	.969		2.14
1942	WSH	AL	26	OF	120	117	116		288	270	4	14	1	.951		2.28	.976		2.38	MVP-13
1942	WSH	AL	26	LF	81	80	80		218	207	4	7	1	.968		2.60	.974		2.27	MVP-13
1942	WSH	AL	26	RF	39	37	36		70	63	0	7	0	.900		1.62	.969		2.07	MVP-13
1943	WSH	AL	27	OF	140	140	138		331	318	8	5	2	.985		2.33	.977		2.47	AS,MVP-12
1943	WSH	AL	27	RF	121	121	119		292	282	7	3	2	.990		2.39	.973		2.21	AS,MVP-12
1943	WSH	AL	27	LF	19	19	19		39	36	1	2	0	.949		1.95	.979		2.40	AS,MVP-12
1944	WSH	AL	28	OF	114	112	104		304	288	7	9	2	.970		2.59	.974		2.47	AS
1944	WSH	AL	28	LF	86	82	78		230	216	6	8	1	.965		2.58	.972		2.35	AS
1944	WSH	AL	28	RF	25	24	22		56	54	1	1	1	.982		2.20	.971		2.08	AS
1944	WSH	AL	28	CF	7	6	4		18	18	0	0	0	1.000		2.57	.979		3.01	AS
1945	WSH	AL	29	OF	123	121	113		340	316	17	7	3	.979		2.71	.978		2.40	MVP-9
1945	WSH	AL	29	LF	86	85	82		230	212	13	5	2	.978		2.62	.976		2.26	MVP-9
1945	WSH	AL	29	RF	27	25	20		74	71	2	1	1	.986		2.70	.974		2.15	MVP-9
1945	WSH	AL	29	CF	17	11	11		36	33	2	1	0	.972		2.06	.982		2.80	MVP-9
1946	CLE	AL	30	LF	118	114	108		235	226	5	4	0	.983		1.96	.974		2.24
1946	CLE	AL	30	OF	118	114	108		235	226	5	4	0	.983		1.96	.977		2.36
1947	WSH	AL	31	OF	21	18	18		54	51	1	2	0	.963		2.48	.979		2.47
1947	WSH	AL	31	LF	12	11	11		31	28	1	2	0	.935		2.42	.976		2.36
1947	WSH	AL	31	RF	5	4	4		11	11	0	0	0	1.000		2.20	.977		2.10
1947	WSH	AL	31	CF	4	3	3		12	12	0	0	0	1.000		3.00	.983		2.95
	11 Seasons			OF	1187	1166	1128		2983	2805	88	90	15	.970		2.44	.974		2.41
	10 Seasons			LF	534	522	506		1339	1255	46	38	6	.972		2.44	.974		2.29
	10 Seasons			RF	424	414	397		976	920	26	30	8	.969		2.23	.970		2.12
	7 Seasons			CF	243	230	225		668	630	16	22	1	.967		2.66	.977		2.82
	11 Seasons			TOT	1187	1166	1128		2983	2805	88	90	15	.970		2.44	.974		2.41
Lg				Pos	G	GS	CG	Inn	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	lgFld%	lgRF9	lgRFG	Awards

Note: Fielding stats are a combination of official records and RetroSheet records. Both are likely to have substantial errors and will not match perfectly.

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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.
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Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	GS	Batting	Defense	LF	CF	RF	OF	PH	PR
1937	WSH	AL	21	22	22	22	22	8	1	14	22	0	0
1938	WSH	AL	22	107	95	107	101	0	20	82	101	10	1
1939	WSH	AL	23	128	123	128	123	7	78	39	123	2	3
1940	WSH	AL	24	154	153	154	154	2	116	36	154	0	0
1941	WSH	AL	25	153	151	153	151	115	0	36	151	2	0
1942	WSH	AL	26	125	117	125	120	81	0	39	120	1	6
1943	WSH	AL	27	141	140	141	140	19	0	121	140	0	1
1944	WSH	AL	28	119	112	119	114	86	7	25	114	0	5
1945	WSH	AL	29	123	121	123	123	86	17	27	123	0	0
1946	CLE	AL	30	118	114	118	118	118	0	0	118	0	0
1947	WSH	AL	31	36	18	36	21	12	4	5	21	3	15
	11 Seasons			1226	1166	1226	1187	534	243	424	1187	18	31

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 1958 BBWAA ( 0.4%) 1960 BBWAA ( 0.4%) 1962 BBWAA ( 0.6%) 1964 BBWAA ( 1.0%)	All-Star Games 1939 1943 (RF) 1944 1945--not played	MVP (yr lg (rk, shr)) 1939 AL (31, 1%) 1942 AL (13, 5%) 1943 AL (12, 11%) 1945 AL (9, 18%) 0.35 Career Shares (557th)	Def. Games as LF (s.1954) s c a p y 1941 AL 115 (4th) 1944 AL 86 (3rd) 1945 AL 86 (5th) 1946 AL 118 (4th)
Putouts as LF (s.1954) s c a p y 1941 AL 289 (2nd) 1944 AL 216 (3rd) 1945 AL 212 (5th) 1946 AL 226 (4th)	Assists as LF (s.1954) s c a p y 1941 AL 16 (2nd) 1944 AL 6 (4th) 1945 AL 13 (2nd)	Errors Committed as LF (s.1954) s c a p y 1941 AL 9 (2nd) 1942 AL 7 (2nd) 1944 AL 8 (1st) 1945 AL 5 (5th) Career 38 (86th)	Assists as CF (s.1954) s c a p y 1940 AL 8 (5th)
Errors Committed as CF (s.1954) s c a p y 1939 AL 12 (2nd) 1940 AL 9 (3rd)	Def. Games as RF (s.1954) s c a p y 1943 AL 121 (3rd)	Putouts as RF (s.1954) s c a p y 1943 AL 282 (2nd)	Assists as RF (s.1954) s c a p y 1943 AL 7 (4th)
Errors Committed as RF (s.1954) s c a p y 1938 AL 8 (3rd) 1942 AL 7 (3rd)	Def. Games as OF s c a p y 1940 AL 154 (1st) 1941 AL 151 (2nd)	Putouts as OF s c a p y 1940 AL 384 (2nd)	Assists as OF s c a p y 1941 AL 21 (1st) 1945 AL 17 (2nd)
Errors Committed as OF s c a p y 1939 AL 16 (3rd) 1940 AL 12 (5th) 1942 AL 14 (1st)	Range Factor/Game as LF (s.1954) s c a p y 1941 AL 2.65 (1st) 1942 AL 2.60 (1st) 1944 AL 2.58 (2nd) 1945 AL 2.62 (1st) 1946 AL 1.96 (5th) Career 2.44 (1st)	Fielding % as LF (s.1954) s c a p y 1944 AL .965 (3rd) 1945 AL .978 (2nd) 1946 AL .983 (2nd)	Range Factor/Game as CF (s.1954) s c a p y 1939 AL 2.86 (5th)
Range Factor/Game as RF (s.1954) s c a p y 1943 AL 2.39 (2nd)	Fielding % as RF (s.1954) s c a p y 1943 AL .990 (1st)	Range Factor/Game as OF s c a p y 1939 AL 2.76 (5th) 1945 AL 2.71 (3rd) Career 2.44 (98th)

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