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George Burns played 16 major-league seasons (1914-1929) as a 1B (1,671), OF (50). Career totals and every year-by-year line below come from the SABR/Lahman database (CC BY-SA), covering 1871-2025.
Showing 16 season lines
| Year | Age | Team | G | AB | R | H | HR | RBI | SB | BB | SO | AVG | OPS | OPS+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1914 | 21 | DET | 137 | 478 | 55 | 139 | 5 | 57 | 23 | 32 | 56 | .291 | .740 | 130 |
| 1915 | 22 | DET | 105 | 392 | 49 | 99 | 5 | 50 | 9 | 22 | 51 | .253 | .653 | 101 |
| 1916 | 23 | DET | 135 | 479 | 60 | 137 | 4 | 73 | 12 | 22 | 30 | .286 | .709 | 120 |
| 1917 | 24 | DET | 119 | 407 | 42 | 92 | 1 | 40 | 3 | 15 | 33 | .226 | .581 | 82 |
| 1918 | 25 | PHA | 130 | 505 | 61 | 178 | 6 | 70 | 8 | 23 | 25 | .352 | .857 | 166 |
| 1919 | 26 | PHA | 126 | 470 | 63 | 139 | 8 | 57 | 15 | 19 | 18 | .296 | .786 | 126 |
| 1920 | 27 | PHA|CLE | 66 | 116 | 8 | 29 | 1 | 20 | 5 | 10 | 10 | .250 | .679 | 85 |
| 1921 | 28 | CLE | 84 | 244 | 52 | 88 | 0 | 49 | 3 | 13 | 19 | .361 | .877 | 129 |
| 1922 | 29 | BOS | 147 | 558 | 71 | 171 | 12 | 73 | 8 | 20 | 28 | .306 | .787 | 110 |
| 1923 | 30 | BOS | 146 | 551 | 91 | 181 | 7 | 82 | 9 | 45 | 33 | .328 | .856 | 131 |
| 1924 | 31 | CLE | 129 | 462 | 64 | 143 | 4 | 68 | 14 | 29 | 27 | .310 | .807 | 114 |
| 1925 | 32 | CLE | 127 | 488 | 69 | 164 | 6 | 79 | 16 | 24 | 24 | .336 | .844 | 119 |
| 1926 | 33 | CLE | 151 | 603 | 97 | 216 | 4 | 114 | 13 | 28 | 33 | .358 | .889 | 139 |
| 1927 | 34 | CLE | 140 | 549 | 84 | 175 | 3 | 78 | 13 | 42 | 27 | .319 | .810 | 116 |
| 1928 | 35 | CLE|NYA | 86 | 213 | 30 | 54 | 5 | 30 | 2 | 17 | 12 | .254 | .716 | 93 |
| 1929 | 36 | NYA|PHA | 38 | 58 | 5 | 13 | 1 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 7 | .224 | .612 | 60 |
| Year | Pos | G | GS | PO | A | E | DP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1914 | 1B | 137 | 0 | 1579 | 79 | 30 | 72 |
| 1915 | 1B | 104 | 0 | 1155 | 57 | 17 | 65 |
| 1916 | 1B | 124 | 0 | 1355 | 54 | 22 | 71 |
| 1917 | 1B | 104 | 0 | 1127 | 57 | 12 | 44 |
| 1918 | 1B | 128 | 0 | 1384 | 104 | 26 | 109 |
| 1918 | OF | 2 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 1919 | 1B | 86 | 0 | 918 | 71 | 20 | 44 |
| 1919 | OF | 34 | 0 | 53 | 4 | 4 | 2 |
| 1920 | OF | 14 | 0 | 20 | 3 | 1 | 0 |
| 1920 | 1B | 12 | 0 | 84 | 9 | 2 | 1 |
| 1921 | 1B | 73 | 0 | 534 | 41 | 6 | 40 |
| 1922 | 1B | 140 | 0 | 1412 | 94 | 20 | 103 |
| 1923 | 1B | 146 | 0 | 1485 | 92 | 16 | 103 |
| 1924 | 1B | 127 | 0 | 1227 | 110 | 18 | 85 |
| 1925 | 1B | 126 | 0 | 1195 | 82 | 14 | 94 |
| 1926 | 1B | 151 | 0 | 1499 | 99 | 19 | 122 |
| 1927 | 1B | 139 | 0 | 1362 | 102 | 15 | 111 |
| 1928 | 1B | 55 | 0 | 477 | 38 | 8 | 44 |
| 1929 | 1B | 19 | 0 | 99 | 5 | 0 | 9 |
Team codes are the source codes (e.g. NYN for the New York Mets, BS1 for the 1875 Boston club). OPS+ is league-season normalized, not park-adjusted; unrecorded source values (such as RBI in the earliest recorded seasons) are absent, never zero-filled.
George Burns won: Baseball Magazine All-Star 1926 (AL), Baseball Magazine All-Star 1926 (ML), MVP 1926 (AL), TSN All-Star 1926 (ML).
MVP, Cy Young and Rookie of the Year voting history (4 ballot finishes, 1 win). Full year pages: 1926, 1925, 1923, 1922.
| Year | Award | Lg | Rank | Points | First-place votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1922 | Most Valuable Player | AL | 21 | 2 / 64 | 0 |
| 1923 | Most Valuable Player | AL | 10 | 8 / 64 | 0 |
| 1925 | Most Valuable Player | AL | 21 | 4 / 64 | 0 |
| 1926 | Most Valuable Player (winner) | AL | 1 | 63 / 64 | 0 |
George Burns ranks on 1 all-time single-season position leaderboard (1871-2025, league-season-normalized OPS+ / ERA+).
| Rank | Board | Year | Stat |
|---|---|---|---|
| #126 | first basemen | 1918 | 166 OPS+ |
Every career total and season line is computed from the SABR / Sean Lahman baseball database (2025 edition, CC BY-SA 3.0), the same source behind our historical position leaderboards. Rate stats use league-season normalization only (OPS+ and ERA+ as marked, never park-adjusted); unrecorded early-era values stay absent rather than being invented. Career totals sum only what the source records.
Award winners and MVP / Cy Young / Rookie of the Year voting history come from the same database; the year pages live under MLB award voting history. Official transactions (2011 to the current season) come from the MLB StatsAPI feed on our transactions archive.