George Scales

1921–1946 · 25 seasons · Bats right, throws right · Born 1900

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Hitting: 17 of 26 columns. Folded away: CS, TB, HBP, wOBA, wRAA, WAR: Bat, WAR: Field, WAR: Run, WAR: Pos. Pitching: 14 of 18 columns. Folded away: HR, BFP, CG, SHO.

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Hitting

Season	Team	Lg	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	WAR
1921	St. Louis Giants	NEG	12	47	44	5	10	2	1	0	6	2	1	0	.227	.261	.318	.579	-0.1
1922	St. Louis Stars	NEG	26	95	80	10	15	7	0	1	11	10	0	0	.188	.278	.313	.590	-0.1
1923	St. Louis Stars	NEG	62	249	198	50	78	13	9	13	57	43	0	7	.394	.502	.747	1.250	5.0
1924	New York Lincoln Giants	NEG	57	238	204	39	69	13	2	7	41	29	0	12	.338	.423	.525	.948	3.4
1925	New York Lincoln Giants	NEG	30	127	105	21	37	8	0	5	33	21	0	2	.352	.460	.571	1.032	-0.1
1926	New York Lincoln Giants	NEG	30	128	107	20	30	4	2	3	20	14	2	1	.280	.384	.439	.823	1.4
1927	New York Lincoln Giants	NEG	28	115	93	25	39	11	1	2	30	20	0	4	.419	.526	.624	1.150	2.4
1928	New York Lincoln Giants	NEG	34	142	119	24	39	12	3	5	27	18	0	8	.328	.416	.605	1.021	2.5
1929	New York Lincoln Giants	NEG	68	296	243	61	93	24	3	8	72	41	1	8	.383	.486	.605	1.091	4.7
1930	Homestead Grays	IND	55	239	196	52	78	21	6	2	40	38	5	4	.398	.496	.597	1.093	3.2
1931	Homestead Grays	IND	48	199	173	37	55	11	9	4	41	19	1	2	.318	.389	.555	.944	1.8
1932	New York Black Yankees	IND	28	121	106	19	36	7	2	1	25	12	0	2	.340	.407	.472	.878	1.0
1933	New York Black Yankees	IND	16	64	55	8	20	5	0	0	8	8	0	0	.364	.444	.455	.899	0.6
1934	New York Black Yankees	IND	21	82	71	11	22	8	1	0	13	10	0	2	.310	.395	.451	.846	0.7
1935	Homestead Grays	NEG	33	124	106	25	28	9	1	4	23	17	1	1	.264	.366	.481	.847	0.9
1936	New York Black Yankees	NEG	33	140	120	24	43	5	2	5	30	15	1	2	.358	.434	.558	.992	1.3
1938	Baltimore Elite Giants	NEG	28	105	82	19	22	2	1	1	11	20	1	3	.268	.412	.354	.765	0.6
1939	New York Black Yankees	NEG	21	75	58	8	18	4	1	3	14	12	1	0	.310	.444	.569	1.013	1.0
1940	Baltimore Elite Giants	NEG	49	179	142	37	50	15	1	4	39	32	2	1	.352	.483	.556	1.039	2.5
1941	Baltimore Elite Giants	NEG	37	110	92	21	28	8	1	2	25	17	4	0	.304	.413	.478	.891	0.9
1942	Baltimore Elite Giants	NEG	49	194	160	26	41	12	1	3	24	25	8	1	.256	.358	.400	.758	0.7
1943	Baltimore Elite Giants	NEG	42	148	121	27	32	10	3	3	23	24	0	1	.264	.395	.471	.866	1.4
1944	Baltimore Elite Giants	NEG	14	50	41	7	16	3	0	0	6	7	0	0	.390	.479	.463	.943	0.7
1945	New York Black Yankees	NEG	17	61	51	4	13	1	1	0	3	8	1	0	.255	.350	.314	.664	0.1
1946	Baltimore Elite Giants	NEG	15	26	24	3	6	1	1	0	7	2	0	1	.250	.308	.375	.683	0.0
Subtotal	Negro Leagues · 20 seasons		685	2649	2190	456	707	164	34	69	502	377	23	52	.323	.428	.523	.951	29.1
Subtotal	Independent Black clubs · 5 seasons		168	705	601	127	211	52	18	7	127	87	6	10	.351	.434	.532	.966	7.3
Career	25 seasons		853	3354	2791	583	918	216	52	76	629	464	29	62	.329	.429	.525	.954	36.4

Pitching

Season	Team	Lg	G	IP	SO	BB	H	ER	ERA	WHIP	WAR	FIP
1938	Baltimore Elite Giants	NEG	1	2.7	2	1	2	0	0.00	1.13	0.1	2.72
1939	New York Black Yankees	NEG	1	1.3	0	1	3	2	13.50	3.00	0.0	5.32
Career	2 seasons		2	4.0	2	2	5	2	4.50	1.75	0.0	—

These seasons were much shorter. In 1937 a Negro Leagues team played about 51 official games while an American or National League team played about 155. The totals above add those seasons up exactly as they were played — no conversion, no pro-rating, no adjustment of any kind — which is why the league subtotals are there. Rate statistics like batting average and ERA do not depend on how many games were played, so they compare straight across the table.

Gold shading marks a top-five finish in that league that season. Filled for first, shaded for second and third, faint for fourth and fifth, with the exact place in the corner of the cell. These rankings are ours, not part of the source data: we work them out from the season lines on this site and count each league on its own, so a first in the American League is not a first across baseball. Rate statistics use the same qualifying line as the season tool, which is why a relief pitcher can have the lowest ERA in his league and still have no shading on it — he did not pitch enough innings to qualify. A ranking is only drawn when its column is on screen; press Show all columns for the rest. On a season where this player both batted and pitched, the WAR column is left unshaded either way: the data keeps one WAR ranking for the year and does not say which of the two it belongs to, and a guess here would put a league lead on the wrong line.

The dark chips beside a season are awards. Those are records rather than our arithmetic: MVP (Most Valuable Player), CY (Cy Young Award), ROY (Rookie of the Year), GG (Gold Glove), SS (Silver Slugger). Two of them are lettered in the metal they are named after — Gold Glove in gold, Silver Slugger in silver — but the letters say which is which, so nothing here depends on telling the two apart by colour.

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Not every award existed yet. This database has Rookie of the Year from 1947, Cy Young Award from 1956, Gold Glove from 1957, Silver Slugger from 1980. A season before that is a season the award did not exist, not a season this player missed out on. The Negro Leagues had none of these awards, so a blank season there says nothing about how the player played.

The WAR columns are worked out on this site — they are not part of the source data, and they will not match Baseball-Reference exactly.

Everything else on this page comes straight from the Lahman database. WAR is our own calculation from those same season lines: fielding is estimated from putouts and assists rather than measured, fielding innings are missing before 1954, and the fielding component is capped. Treat it as a reasonable estimate of value, not as a record. The season tool explains the method in full.

— means the value is not in the source for that season, which is not the same as zero. In the Career and Subtotal rows it marks a statistic that cannot be added up across seasons — wOBA and FIP both need league constants that change every year, so we leave them blank rather than invent one. Leagues on this page: NEG (Negro Leagues), IND (Independent Black clubs).

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