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Home Run Baker

John Franklin Baker (Home Run)

Position: Third Baseman
Bats: Left, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 11", Weight: 173 lb.

Born: March 13, 1886 in Trappe, MD
High School: Trappe HS (Trappe, MD) (All Transactions)
Debut: September 21, 1908
Teams (by GP): Athletics/Yankees 1908-1922

Final Game: September 29, 1922
Inducted into the Hall of Fame by Veteran's Committee as Player in 1955.
   View Home Run Baker Page at the Baseball Hall of Fame (plaque, photos, videos).
Died: June 28, 1963 in Trappe, MD
Buried: Spring Hill Cemetery of Talbot County, Easton, MD
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Hall of Fame

Standard Fielding

Year Tm Lg Age Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% RF/9 RF/G lgFld% lgRF9 lgRFG Awards
1908 PHA AL 22 3B 9 34 12 22 0 0 1.000 3.78 .932 3.28
1909 PHA AL 23 3B 146 528 209 277 42 16 .920 3.33 .931 3.41
1910 PHA AL 24 3B 146 565 207 313 45 35 .920 3.56 .931 3.48
1911 PHA AL 25 3B 148 521 217 274 30 26 .942 3.32 .929 3.32 MVP-11
1912 PHA AL 26 3B 149 572 217 321 34 25 .941 3.61 .920 3.37 MVP-7
1913 PHA AL 27 3B 149 557 233 280 44 19 .921 3.44 .934 3.15 MVP-5
1914 PHA AL 28 3B 149 537 221 292 24 20 .955 3.44 .936 3.26 MVP-3
1916 NYY AL 30 3B 96 365 133 210 22 16 .940 3.57 .939 3.40
1917 NYY AL 31 3B 146 547 202 317 28 21 .949 3.55 .941 3.36
1918 NYY AL 32 3B 126 126 125 470 175 282 13 33 .972 3.63 .948 3.37
1919 NYY AL 33 3B 141 141 135 484 176 286 22 27 .955 3.28 .950 3.34
1921 NYY AL 35 3B 83 82 75 268 84 173 11 16 .959 3.10 .952 3.41
1922 NYY AL 36 3B 60 57 54 183 68 108 7 6 .962 2.93 .950 3.45
13 Seasons 3B 1548 406 389 5631 2154 3155 322 260 .943 3.43 .937 3.35
13 Seasons TOT 1548 406 389 5631 2154 3155 322 260 .943 3.43 .937 3.35
Note: Fielding stats are a combination of official records and RetroSheet records. Both are likely to have substantial errors and will not match perfectly.
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Leagues historically made no effort to balance team, league, and player fielding stats. Since 1990 or so, computers have made this feasible, but prior to that there are hundreds or thousands of discrepancies each year in games played (even whether a player played a position), putouts, assists, double plays and errors.
  • Pre-1948 SB & CS data for catchers is estimated from catcher assists, games started and opposition stolen bases.
  • From 1948 on SB, CS, Pickoff, & WP data for catchers and pitchers is taken from play-by-play accounts in the retrosheet files. There are several hundred games without pbp from 1948 to 1973 and for those we may not have any data.
  • CG & GS come from the retrosheet data and should be complete and pretty accurate from 1918 on.
  • Innings played (like SB and CS) come from the retrosheet play-by-play data and should be considered mostly complete from 1948 to 1973 and complete from then on.
  • Stats (PO,A,G, etc) for LF-CF-RF positions (since 1918) is taken from play-by-play or box score data as available.
  • Stats (PO,A,G,etc) for C,P,1B,2B,3B,SS,OF positions is taken from the official reported totals and may have been corrected at various times since their publication.
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Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1908 PHA AL 22 9 9 0 0 0 0 9 0 0 0 0 0 0
1909 PHA AL 23 148 148 0 0 0 0 146 0 0 0 0 0 0
1910 PHA AL 24 146 146 0 0 0 0 146 0 0 0 0 0 0
1911 PHA AL 25 148 148 0 0 0 0 148 0 0 0 0 0 0
1912 PHA AL 26 149 149 0 0 0 0 149 0 0 0 0 0 0
1913 PHA AL 27 149 149 0 0 0 0 149 0 0 0 0 0 0
1914 PHA AL 28 150 150 0 0 0 0 149 0 0 0 0 0 0
1916 NYY AL 30 100 100 0 0 0 0 96 0 0 0 0 0 0
1917 NYY AL 31 146 146 0 0 0 0 146 0 0 0 0 0 0
1918 NYY AL 32 126 126 0 0 0 0 126 0 0 0 0 0 0
1919 NYY AL 33 141 141 141 141 0 0 0 0 141 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1921 NYY AL 35 94 82 94 83 0 0 0 0 83 0 0 0 0 0 0 11 0
1922 NYY AL 36 69 57 69 57 0 0 0 0 57 0 0 0 0 0 0 12 0
13 Seasons 1575 280 1575 281 0 0 0 0 1545 0 0 0 0 0 0 23 0
Appearances table is calculated solely from full RetroSheet play-by-play data available from 1973 on. A combination of RetroSheet (starting with the 1918 season) and non-RetroSheet data is used for other seasons.

Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

Hall of Fame
1936 BBWAA ( 0.4%)
1937 BBWAA ( 6.5%)
1938 BBWAA (12.2%)
1939 BBWAA (10.9%)
1942 BBWAA (16.7%)
1945 BBWAA (10.5%)
1946 Final Ballot (13.7%)
1946 Nominating Vote (19.3%)
1947 BBWAA (30.4%)
1948 BBWAA ( 3.3%)
1950 BBWAA ( 2.4%)
1951 BBWAA ( 3.5%)
1955 Veterans (inducted)
Selected to HOF in 1955
by Veteran's Committee

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr))
1911 AL (11, 12%)
1912 AL (7, 27%)
1913 AL (5, 33%)
1914 AL (3, 27%)
0.99 Career Shares (244th)

Errors Committed† s c a p y
1913 AL  44 (4th)

Def. Games as 3B s c a p y
1909 AL  146 (1st)
1910 AL  146 (1st)
1911 AL  148 (1st)
1912 AL  149 (2nd)
1913 AL  149 (2nd)
1914 AL  149 (3rd)
1916 AL  96 (5th)
1917 AL  146 (1st)
1918 AL  126 (3rd)
1919 AL  141 (1st)
Career  1,548 (37th)

Putouts as 3B s c a p y
1909 AL  209 (1st)
1910 AL  207 (1st)
1911 AL  217 (2nd)
1912 AL  217 (2nd)
1913 AL  233 (1st)
1914 AL  221 (1st)
1916 AL  133 (4th)
1917 AL  202 (1st)
1918 AL  175 (1st)
1919 AL  176 (1st)
Career  2,154 (7th)

Assists as 3B s c a p y
1909 AL  277 (1st)
1910 AL  313 (2nd)
1911 AL  274 (2nd)
1912 AL  321 (2nd)
1913 AL  280 (2nd)
1914 AL  292 (3rd)
1916 AL  210 (5th)
1917 AL  317 (1st)
1918 AL  282 (2nd)
1919 AL  286 (3rd)
Career  3,155 (35th)

Errors Committed as 3B s c a p y
1909 AL  42 (1st)
1910 AL  45 (2nd)
1911 AL  30 (3rd)
1912 AL  34 (5th)
1913 AL  44 (1st)
1914 AL  24 (5th)
1916 AL  22 (3rd)
1917 AL  28 (3rd)
1919 AL  22 (4th)
Career  322 (28th)

Range Factor/Game as 3B s c a p y
1909 AL  3.33 (5th)
1910 AL  3.56 (3rd)
1911 AL  3.32 (4th)
1912 AL  3.61 (1st)
1913 AL  3.44 (2nd)
1914 AL  3.44 (3rd)
1916 AL  3.57 (3rd)
1917 AL  3.55 (1st)
1918 AL  3.63 (2nd)
1919 AL  3.28 (5th)
Career  3.43 (19th)

Fielding % as 3B s c a p y
1911 AL  .942 (2nd)
1912 AL  .941 (2nd)
1913 AL  .921 (5th)
1914 AL  .955 (3rd)
1916 AL  .940 (5th)
1917 AL  .949 (2nd)
1918 AL  .972 (1st)
1919 AL  .955 (3rd)
1921 AL  .959 (2nd)

Oldest s c a p y
1921 AL  born 1886-03-13 (5th)
1922 AL  born 1886-03-13 (6th)

                           

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