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George Burns played 15 major-league seasons (1911-1925) as a OF (1,844), 3B (1). Career totals and every year-by-year line below come from the SABR/Lahman database (CC BY-SA), covering 1871-2025.
Showing 15 season lines
| Year | Age | Team | G | AB | R | H | HR | RBI | SB | BB | SO | AVG | OPS | OPS+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1911 | 22 | NY1 | 6 | 17 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .059 | .170 | -50 |
| 1912 | 23 | NY1 | 29 | 51 | 11 | 15 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 8 | 8 | .294 | .773 | 118 |
| 1913 | 24 | NY1 | 150 | 605 | 81 | 173 | 2 | 54 | 40 | 58 | 74 | .286 | .723 | 113 |
| 1914 | 25 | NY1 | 154 | 561 | 100 | 170 | 3 | 60 | 62 | 89 | 53 | .303 | .820 | 152 |
| 1915 | 26 | NY1 | 155 | 622 | 83 | 169 | 3 | 51 | 27 | 56 | 57 | .272 | .707 | 121 |
| 1916 | 27 | NY1 | 155 | 623 | 105 | 174 | 5 | 41 | 37 | 63 | 47 | .279 | .714 | 126 |
| 1917 | 28 | NY1 | 152 | 597 | 103 | 180 | 5 | 45 | 40 | 75 | 55 | .302 | .792 | 150 |
| 1918 | 29 | NY1 | 119 | 465 | 80 | 135 | 4 | 51 | 40 | 43 | 37 | .290 | .743 | 133 |
| 1919 | 30 | NY1 | 139 | 534 | 86 | 162 | 2 | 46 | 40 | 82 | 37 | .303 | .801 | 147 |
| 1920 | 31 | NY1 | 154 | 631 | 115 | 181 | 6 | 46 | 22 | 76 | 48 | .287 | .765 | 125 |
| 1921 | 32 | NY1 | 149 | 605 | 111 | 181 | 4 | 61 | 19 | 80 | 24 | .299 | .781 | 114 |
| 1922 | 33 | CIN | 156 | 631 | 104 | 180 | 1 | 53 | 30 | 78 | 38 | .285 | .719 | 92 |
| 1923 | 34 | CIN | 154 | 614 | 99 | 168 | 3 | 45 | 12 | 101 | 46 | .274 | .751 | 105 |
| 1924 | 35 | CIN | 93 | 336 | 43 | 86 | 2 | 33 | 3 | 29 | 21 | .256 | .657 | 81 |
| 1925 | 36 | PHI | 88 | 349 | 65 | 102 | 1 | 22 | 4 | 33 | 20 | .292 | .743 | 96 |
| Year | Pos | G | GS | PO | A | E | DP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1911 | OF | 6 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1912 | OF | 23 | 0 | 24 | 3 | 0 | 1 |
| 1913 | OF | 150 | 0 | 321 | 22 | 13 | 1 |
| 1914 | OF | 154 | 0 | 326 | 19 | 18 | 5 |
| 1915 | OF | 155 | 0 | 278 | 13 | 12 | 4 |
| 1916 | OF | 155 | 0 | 289 | 19 | 12 | 3 |
| 1917 | OF | 152 | 0 | 325 | 16 | 9 | 4 |
| 1918 | OF | 119 | 0 | 292 | 10 | 11 | 1 |
| 1919 | OF | 139 | 0 | 290 | 15 | 3 | 4 |
| 1920 | OF | 154 | 0 | 336 | 11 | 6 | 5 |
| 1921 | OF | 149 | 0 | 360 | 16 | 11 | 2 |
| 1921 | 3B | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1922 | OF | 156 | 0 | 386 | 20 | 10 | 3 |
| 1923 | OF | 154 | 0 | 327 | 11 | 14 | 3 |
| 1924 | OF | 90 | 0 | 168 | 13 | 7 | 4 |
| 1925 | OF | 88 | 0 | 189 | 9 | 2 | 2 |
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 1914 (NL), Baseball Magazine All-Star 1917 (NL), Baseball Magazine All-Star 1918 (NL), Baseball Magazine All-Star 1919 (NL).
MVP, Cy Young and Rookie of the Year voting history (2 ballot finishes, 0 wins). Full year pages: 1914, 1913.
| Year | Award | Lg | Rank | Points | First-place votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1913 | Most Valuable Player | NL | 24 | 2 / 64 | 0 |
| 1914 | Most Valuable Player | NL | 4 | 31 / 64 | 0 |
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.