Full Name: George Alexander Selkirk
Position: Right field
Born: January 4, 1908 (Huntsville, Ontario)
Yankee Years: 1934-42
Primary number: 3
Yankee statistics: 846 games, 3323 PA, .290/.400/.483, 108 HR, 503 R, 576 RBI, 127 wRC+, 23.4 rWAR, 23.8 fWAR
Biography
On Opening Day, 1935, George Selkirk took what might have been the hardest job in the history of American sport: right field for the New York Yankees, the successor of Babe Ruth. Old Yankee Stadium was about as far as you could get from the sleepy mill town of Huntsville, Ontario.