George Harper

George Washington Harper

Position: Outfielder
Bats: Left, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 8", Weight: 167 lb.

Born: June 24, 1892 in Arlington, KY (All Transactions)
Debut: April 15, 1916
Teams (by GP): Phillies/Reds/Giants/Tigers/Braves/... 1916-1929

Final Game: September 28, 1929
Died: August 18, 1978 in Magnolia, AR
Buried: New Hope Cemetery, Magnolia, AR
About biographical information

View team uniforms at Dressed to the Nines a Baseball Hall of Fame on-line exhibit / Report an error

Promote your website or business by sponsoring this page for $15 on Baseball-Reference.com. Your message will replace this ad.

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
1916	DET	AL	24	OF	14				16	15	0	1	0	.938		1.07	.963		2.12	2-4-8
1917	DET	AL	25	OF	31				51	48	2	1	0	.980		1.61	.967		2.22	0-3-28
1918	DET	AL	26	OF	64	61	56		136	125	5	6	2	.956		2.03	.962		2.26	0-1-63
1918	DET	AL	26	RF	63	60	55		131	120	5	6	2	.954		1.98	.955		1.98
1918	DET	AL	26	CF	2	1	1		5	5	0	0	0	1.000		2.50	.968		2.65
1922	CIN	NL	30	OF	109	106	102		246	220	15	11	2	.955		2.16	.962		2.40
1922	CIN	NL	30	RF	103	102	98		231	206	14	11	2	.952		2.14	.955		2.18
1922	CIN	NL	30	CF	5	4	4		14	13	1	0	0	1.000		2.80	.970		2.82
1922	CIN	NL	30	LF	1	0	0		1	1	0	0	0	1.000		1.00	.960		2.20
1923	CIN	NL	31	OF	29	21	20		61	56	3	2	0	.967		2.03	.964		2.44
1923	CIN	NL	31	CF	17	12	11		39	35	2	2	0	.949		2.18	.968		2.89
1923	CIN	NL	31	LF	9	8	8		17	16	1	0	0	1.000		1.89	.966		2.26
1923	CIN	NL	31	RF	3	1	1		5	5	0	0	0	1.000		1.67	.958		2.17
1924	TOT	NL	32	OF	131	124	110		290	270	16	4	4	.986		2.18	.965		2.39
1924	TOT	NL	32	CF	13	10	10		38	37	1	0	0	1.000		2.92	.965		2.85
1924	CIN	NL	32	OF	22	18	17		56	51	3	2	0	.964		2.45	.965		2.39
1924	CIN	NL	32	LF	12	10	9		26	22	2	2	0	.923		2.00	.964		2.26
1924	CIN	NL	32	CF	10	8	8		30	29	1	0	0	1.000		3.00	.965		2.85
1924	PHI	NL	32	OF	109	106	93		234	219	13	2	4	.991		2.13	.965		2.39
1924	PHI	NL	32	RF	107	104	91		227	211	14	2	4	.991		2.10	.966		2.06
1924	PHI	NL	32	CF	3	2	2		8	8	0	0	0	1.000		2.67	.965		2.87
1925	PHI	NL	33	OF	126	123	107		345	319	16	10	5	.971		2.66	.967		2.48		MVP-18
1925	PHI	NL	33	CF	63	60	53		196	180	9	7	1	.964		3.00	.967		2.92		MVP-18
1925	PHI	NL	33	LF	36	32	30		80	75	3	2	1	.975		2.17	.967		2.26		MVP-18
1925	PHI	NL	33	RF	33	31	24		69	64	4	1	3	.986		2.06	.967		2.27		MVP-18
1926	PHI	NL	34	OF	55	50	36		120	111	2	7	1	.942		2.05	.965		2.42
1926	PHI	NL	34	LF	44	36	30		90	81	2	7	1	.922		1.89	.961		2.21
1926	PHI	NL	34	CF	8	7	1		12	12	0	0	0	1.000		1.50	.965		2.85
1926	PHI	NL	34	RF	8	7	5		18	18	0	0	0	1.000		2.25	.968		2.21
1927	NYG	NL	35	OF	142	141	136		320	299	13	8	5	.975		2.20	.970		2.49
1927	NYG	NL	35	RF	142	141	136		320	299	13	8	5	.975		2.20	.968		2.26
1928	TOT	NL	36	OF	102	92	83		217	196	17	4	3	.982		2.09	.972		2.47
1928	TOT	NL	36	RF	102	92	83		217	196	17	4	3	.982		2.09	.968		2.26
1928	NYG	NL	36	OF	18	16	14		46	40	4	2	1	.957		2.44	.972		2.47
1928	NYG	NL	36	RF	18	16	14		46	40	4	2	1	.957		2.44	.968		2.26
1928	STL	NL	36	OF	84	76	69		171	156	13	2	2	.988		2.01	.972		2.47
1928	STL	NL	36	RF	84	76	69		171	156	13	2	2	.988		2.01	.968		2.26
1929	BSN	NL	37	OF	130	124	116		281	266	7	8	2	.972		2.10	.973		2.47
1929	BSN	NL	37	LF	118	114	106		251	241	4	6	0	.976		2.08	.971		2.10
1929	BSN	NL	37	RF	11	10	10		30	25	3	2	2	.933		2.55	.971		2.37
1929	BSN	NL	37	CF	1	0	0		0	0	0	0	0			0.00			2.90
	11 Seasons			OF	933	842	766		2083	1925	96	62	24	.970		2.17	.967		2.42	222-117-671
	9 Seasons (incomplete)			RF	572	548	503		1248	1144	70	34	21	.973		2.12	.964		2.18
	6 Seasons (incomplete)			LF	220	200	183		465	436	12	17	2	.963		2.04	.968		2.16
	7 Seasons (incomplete)			CF	109	94	80		304	282	13	9	1	.970		2.71	.967		2.89
	11 Seasons			TOT	933	842	766		2083	1925	96	62	24	.970		2.17	.967		2.42	222-117-671
Lg				Pos	G	GS	CG	Inn	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	lgFld%	lgRF9	lgRFG	G	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-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
For detailed information on the availability of data on this site by year, see our data coverage page

Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	GS	Batting	Defense	LF	CF	RF	OF	PH	PR
1916	DET	AL	24	44		44		2	4	8	14
1917	DET	AL	25	47		47		0	3	28	31
1918	DET	AL	26	69		69		0	1	63	64
1922	CIN	NL	30	128	106	128	109	1	5	103	109	19	0
1923	CIN	NL	31	61	21	61	29	9	17	3	29	32	0
1924	PHI	NL	32	109	106	109	109	0	3	107	109	0	0
1924	CIN	NL	32	28	18	28	22	12	10	0	22	6	0
1925	PHI	NL	33	132	123	132	126	36	63	33	126	6	0
1926	PHI	NL	34	56	50	56	55	44	8	8	55	1	0
1927	NYG	NL	35	145	141	145	142	0	0	142	142	3	0
1928	STL	NL	36	99	76	99	84	0	0	84	84	15	0
1928	NYG	NL	36	19	16	19	18	0	0	18	18	1	0
1929	BSN	NL	37	136	124	136	130	118	1	11	130	6	0
	11 Seasons			1073	781	1073	824	222	115	608	933	89	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

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr)) 1925 NL (18, 4%) 0.04 Career Shares (1177th)	Errors Committed as LF (s.1954) s c a p y 1926 NL 7 (4th) 1929 NL 6 (5th)	Assists as CF (s.1954) s c a p y 1925 NL 9 (3rd)	Def. Games as RF (s.1954) s c a p y 1922 NL 103 (3rd) 1924 NL 107 (4th) 1927 NL 142 (2nd)
Putouts as RF (s.1954) s c a p y 1922 NL 206 (3rd) 1924 NL 211 (3rd) 1927 NL 299 (3rd)	Assists as RF (s.1954) s c a p y 1922 NL 14 (3rd) 1924 NL 14 (2nd) 1928 NL 17 (2nd) Career 70 (80th)	Errors Committed as RF (s.1954) s c a p y 1922 NL 11 (3rd) 1927 NL 8 (3rd)	Assists as OF s c a p y 1924 NL 16 (5th) 1928 NL 17 (3rd)
Fielding % as LF (s.1954) s c a p y 1929 NL .976 (3rd)	Range Factor/Game as RF (s.1954) s c a p y 1922 NL 2.14 (3rd) 1924 NL 2.10 (3rd) 1927 NL 2.20 (4th) 1928 NL 2.09 (5th) Career 2.12 (24th)	Fielding % as RF (s.1954) s c a p y 1922 NL .952 (3rd) 1924 NL .991 (1st) 1927 NL .975 (3rd) 1928 NL .982 (2nd)	Fielding % as OF s c a p y 1924 NL .986 (1st)

Other Resources & Links

Error? Compare Search SABR's Baseball Index Other Links@google.com Baseball Library Baseball-Almanac.com Retrosheet The Baseball Cube The Baseball Page WhatIfSports: George Harper

Viewed 8,518 times through May 31, 2012.
Name and misspellings: George gearge George goerge Washington Harper

Player Page Tricks and Tips

Sum any set of rows by clicking anywhere (not red or blue) on the first and last rows of your selection. We will then compute the totals for the player between and including those two seasons.
Default Setting for this feature: Turn On / Turn Off
Summation of season totals only works for the initial case when the table is in year order. On a sorted table the results may get a bit goofy.

HIGHLIGHTING: Adding a range or series of player's career seasons or career game numbers (like '#1972:batting_standard', '#1970-1980-sum:batting_standard', or '#1998,1999,2001,2002,sum:pitching_standard') onto the end of a player page url causes the seasons to the highlighted and summed. After changing address bar, reload the page to see highlighting. This will work even in links e-mailed to others. Note that for tables with multiple pages the first table is the default. If you want to create a sum for a table other than the first one, select the rows and after the summation window appears click on "permanent link" link.

The play-by-play information both shown and used to create certain data sets was obtained free of charge from and is copyrighted by RetroSheet.

Automatic Player Linking / Statistical Sharing Tool / Basic Player Linking / Data Coverage

See Front Page for time of last update

Much of the play-by-play, game results, and transaction information both shown and used to create certain data sets was obtained free of charge from and is copyrighted by RetroSheet.

Win Expectancy, Run Expectancy, and Leverage Index calculations provided by Tom Tango of InsideTheBook.com, and co-author of The Book: Playing the Percentages in Baseball.

Total Zone Rating and Wins above Replacement calculations provided by Sean Smith of BaseballProjection.com.

Full-year historical Major League statistics provided by Pete Palmer and Gary Gillette of 24-7 Baseball.

Player head shots courtesy of David Davis. Many thanks to him. We have only selected seasons (players who debuted before 1960) for which we believe the image has reverted into the public domain. We will quickly remove any images for which that can be shown to not be the case.Please let us know if you are aware of any such images on this site.

Play Index Loading Photos from the George Grantham Bain Collection at the Library of Congress.

A Sports Reference Site: About Baseball Reference | Found a bug or have a suggestion?
Privacy Statement | Conditions & Terms of Service | Use of Data

Part of the USA TODAY Sports Media Group.