Friday, September 9, 2022

NEGRO BASEBALL LEAGUE ALL-TIME LEGENDS- GEORGE SCALES

On the blog today, we add the great Negro league player George Scales to my long-running 1972 "Negro Leagues All-Time Greats" thread, celebrating the 25th anniversary of Jackie Robinson's debut in the Major Leagues:

 
The second baseman put in a 25-year professional career that saw him bat .320, while also going on to manage 12 seasons in the Puerto Rican Winter League, winning six pennants.
An incredibly versatile player, he put in time at every single position except for catcher, playing the most of his career at third base with 235 games and second base with 161 games.
In 1927, while with the New York Lincoln Giants, he hit .419, a career-best though he did top a .380 batting average three other times over the course of his career.
His .510 career slugging average ranks ninth among all Negro League players with 3000 or more plate appearances, with all eight of the players ahead of him already in the Hall of Fame, for which Scales has not been yet honored.