Tracy Baker | |
Position: | First baseman |
Birth Date: | 7 November 1891 |
Birth Place: | Pendleton, Oregon |
Death Place: | Placerville, California |
Bats: | Right |
Throws: | Right |
Debutleague: | MLB |
Debutdate: | June 19 |
Debutyear: | 1911 |
Debutteam: | Boston Red Sox |
Finalleague: | MLB |
Finaldate: | June 19 |
Finalyear: | 1911 |
Finalteam: | Boston Red Sox |
Statleague: | MLB |
Stat1label: | Games played |
Stat1value: | 1 |
Stat2label: | At bats |
Stat2value: | 0 |
Stat3label: | Sacrifice hits |
Stat3value: | 1 |
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Trace Lee "Tracy" Baker (November 7, 1891 – March 14, 1975) was a first baseman in Major League Baseball who played for the Boston Red Sox. Baker batted and threw right-handed. He was born in Pendleton, Oregon, and studied at the University of Washington, where he played college baseball for the Huskies in 1910.[1]
Of the more than 16,000 players in major league history, Baker is also among the 900-plus players on the Elias Sports Bureau registry who got into only one game. He was 19 years old. Baker's one big-league game came on June 19, 1911. In his only plate appearance, he executed a sacrifice bunt. On the field he made four putouts without committing an error.[2]
Baker served in the US Army during World War I and worked in the Kaiser Shipyards during World II. He died in Placerville, California, at the age of 83.