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George Robert Stone, nicknamed Silent George, (September 3, 1876 – January 3, 1945) was a left fielder in Major League Baseball who played for the Boston Red Sox (1903) and St. Louis Browns (1905–10). Stone batted and threw left-handed. He was the 1906 American League batting champion.
Baseball career
He left his career in banking at the age of 26 to join the Omaha team of the Western League.
In December 1904 he was traded by the Boston Americans with cash to the St. Louis Browns for Jesse Burkett.
In a seven-season career, Stone posted a .301 batting average with 23 home runs and 268 RBI in 848 games played.
Stone died in Clinton, Iowa, at the age of 68. The burial was at Coleridge Cemetery, in Coleridge, Nebraska.
In 1970 he was inducted into The Des Moines Register's Iowa Sports Hall of Fame.