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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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Fine Details  · Last Updated Feb 12, 2012, 12:02AM
All-Time Rank (among Batters): #991. Cliff Johnson… #992. Rickie Weeks… #993. Hughie Critz… #994. GEORGE CASE… #995. Charlie Comiskey… #996. Jim Gantner… #997. Bengie Molina… 

Standard Batting

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Year Age Tm Lg G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS OPS+ TB GDP HBP SH SF IBB Pos Awards
1937 21 WSH AL 22 93 90 14 26 6 2 0 11 2 1 3 5 .289 .312 .400 .712 82 36 0 0 O
1938 22 WSH AL 107 479 433 69 132 27 3 2 40 11 6 39 28 .305 .362 .395 .757 95 171 0 7 O
1939 23 WSH AL 128 593 530 103 160 20 7 2 35 51 17 56 36 .302 .369 .377 .746 98 200 6 0 7 *O AS,MVP-31
1940 24 WSH AL 154 720 656 109 192 29 5 5 56 35 10 52 39 .293 .349 .375 .724 93 246 5 5 7 *O
1941 25 WSH AL 153 708 649 95 176 32 8 2 53 33 9 51 37 .271 .325 .354 .680 83 230 5 1 7 *O
1942 26 WSH AL 125 563 513 101 164 26 2 5 43 44 6 44 30 .320 .377 .407 .784 121 209 8 3 3 *O MVP-13
1943 27 WSH AL 141 660 613 102 180 36 5 1 52 61 14 41 27 .294 .341 .374 .715 113 229 3 3 3 *O AS,MVP-12
1944 28 WSH AL 119 521 464 63 116 14 2 2 32 49 18 49 22 .250 .326 .302 .627 84 140 8 3 5 *O AS
1945 29 WSH AL 123 561 504 72 148 19 5 1 31 30 16 49 27 .294 .360 .357 .717 117 180 7 3 5 *O MVP-9
1946 30 CLE AL 118 528 484 46 109 23 4 1 22 28 11 34 38 .225 .280 .295 .576 66 143 6 3 7 *O
1947 31 WSH AL 36 89 80 11 12 1 0 0 2 5 1 8 8 .150 .227 .163 .390 11 13 0 0 1 O
11 Seasons 1226 5515 5016 785 1415 233 43 21 377 349 109 426 297 .282 .341 .358 .699 95 1797 48 21 52
162 Game Avg. 162 729 663 104 187 31 6 3 50 46 14 56 39 .282 .341 .358 .699 95 237 3 7
WSH (10 yrs) 1108 4987 4532 739 1306 210 39 20 355 321 98 392 259 .288 .347 .365 .712 98 1654 42 18 45
CLE (1 yr) 118 528 484 46 109 23 4 1 22 28 11 34 38 .225 .280 .295 .576 66 143 6 3 7

Player Value--Batters

WAR: 8+ MVP, 5+ A-S, 2+ Strtr, 0-2 Sub, < 0 Repl.
Year Age Tm Lg PA Rbat Rbaser Rroe Rdp Rfield Rpos Rrep RAR WAR oRAR oWAR dWAR Salary Pos Awards
1937 21 WSH AL 93 -3 1 0 0 0 -1 3 0 0.0 0 0.0 0.0 $ O
1938 22 WSH AL 479 -4 0 0 0 0 -4 14 6 0.7 6 0.6 0.1 $ O
1939 23 WSH AL 593 -4 7 0 0 5 -3 17 22 2.2 17 1.6 0.6 $ *O AS,MVP-31
1940 24 WSH AL 720 -8 6 0 0 -2 -2 17 11 1.1 13 1.3 -0.2 $ *O
1941 25 WSH AL 708 -13 6 0 0 4 -7 17 7 0.7 3 0.3 0.4 $ *O
1942 26 WSH AL 563 15 11 0 0 -4 -5 11 28 3.0 32 3.4 -0.4 $ *O MVP-13
1943 27 WSH AL 660 13 12 0 0 4 -6 13 36 4.0 32 3.6 0.4 $ *O AS,MVP-12
1944 28 WSH AL 521 -8 4 0 0 4 -5 11 6 0.5 2 0.2 0.3 $ *O AS
1945 29 WSH AL 561 12 2 0 0 10 -5 11 30 3.2 20 2.2 1.0 $ *O MVP-9
1946 30 CLE AL 528 -25 2 0 0 0 -5 13 -15 -1.8 -15 -1.7 -0.1 $ *O
1947 31 WSH AL 89 -9 1 0 0 0 -1 2 -7 -0.7 -7 -0.8 0.1 $ O
11 Seasons 5515 -34 52 0 0 21 -44 129 124 12.9 103 10.7 2.2 $
WSH (10 yrs) 4987 -9 50 0 0 21 -39 116 139 14.7 118 12.4 2.3 $
CLE (1 yr) 528 -25 2 0 0 0 -5 13 -15 -1.8 -15 -1.7 -0.1 $

Standard Fielding

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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 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 101 222 207 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 123 355 332 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 154 406 384 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 151 393 362 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 120 288 270 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 140 331 318 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 114 304 288 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 123 340 316 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 OF 118 235 226 5 4 0 .983 1.96 .977 2.36
1946 CLE AL 30 LF 118 114 108 235 226 5 4 0 .983 1.96 .974 2.24
1947 WSH AL 31 OF 21 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 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 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.
View Complete Notes on Fielding Data
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-1950 SB & CS data for catchers is estimated from catcher assists, games started and opposition stolen bases.
  • From 1950 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 1950 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 1919 on.
  • Innings played (like SB and CS) come from the retrosheet play-by-play data and should be considered mostly complete from 1950 to 1973 and complete from then on.
  • Stats (PO,A,G, etc) for LF-CF-RF positions (since 1919) 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 1950 to 1973, please see their most wanted games list
  • For detailed information on the availability of data on this site by year, see our data coverage page

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 (556th)

WAR Position Players† s c a p y
1943 AL  4.0 (8th)

Offensive WAR† s c a p y
1943 AL  3.6 (8th)

Defensive WAR† s c a p y
1943 AL  0.4 (10th)
1945 AL  1.0 (4th)

Batting Average s c a p y
1942 AL  .320 (5th)
1943 AL  .294 (5th)
1945 AL  .294 (7th)

Games Played s c a p y
1940 AL  154 (6th)
1941 AL  153 (6th)

At Bats s c a p y
1940 AL  656 (2nd)
1941 AL  649 (2nd)
1943 AL  613 (2nd)

Plate Appearances s c a p y
1940 AL  720 (1st)
1941 AL  708 (1st)
1943 AL  660 (9th)

Runs Scored s c a p y
1940 AL  109 (6th)
1942 AL  101 (7th)
1943 AL  102 (1st)

Hits s c a p y
1940 AL  192 (8th)
1941 AL  176 (8th)
1943 AL  180 (4th)

Total Bases s c a p y
1943 AL  229 (10th)

Doubles s c a p y
1943 AL  36 (2nd)

Stolen Bases s c a p y
1939 AL  51 (1st)
1940 AL  35 (1st)
1941 AL  33 (1st)
1942 AL  44 (1st)
1943 AL  61 (1st)
1944 AL  49 (2nd)
1945 AL  30 (2nd)
1946 AL  28 (1st)
Career  349 (110th)

Singles s c a p y
1939 AL  131 (7th)
1940 AL  153 (3rd)
1941 AL  134 (4th)
1942 AL  131 (5th)
1943 AL  138 (4th)
1945 AL  123 (3rd)

Runs Created s c a p y
1943 AL  83 (8th)

Offensive Win % s c a p y
1942 AL  .681 (9th)

Hit By Pitch s c a p y
1940 AL  5 (2nd)
1945 AL  3 (10th)

Caught Stealing s c a p y
1939 AL  17 (1st)
1940 AL  10 (1st)
1941 AL  9 (3rd)
1943 AL  14 (3rd)
1944 AL  18 (1st)
1945 AL  16 (2nd)
1946 AL  11 (1st)
Career  109 (83rd)

Power-Speed # s c a p y
1942 AL  9.0 (7th)

AB per SO s c a p y
1943 AL  22.7 (5th)
1945 AL  18.7 (8th)
Career  16.9 (204th)

Outs Made s c a p y
1940 AL  486 (2nd)
1941 AL  494 (2nd)
1943 AL  453 (10th)

Errors Committed as LF (s.1954) s c a p y
Career  38 (84th)

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)

                           

Hall Of Fame Statistics

Player rank in (·)

Black InkBatting - 15 (151), Average HOFer ≈ 27
Gray InkBatting - 53 (481), Average HOFer ≈ 144
Hall of Fame MonitorBatting - 48 (409), Likely HOFer ≈ 100
Hall of Fame StandardsBatting - 14 (1203), Average HOFer ≈ 50

Similarity Scores

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  7. George Burns (946)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  8. George Burns (952)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  9. George Burns (948)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
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