MLB / Players

Home Run Baker

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 173 lb

BornMarch 13, 1886 · Trappe, MD, USA

MLB debutSeptember 21, 1908

Final gameSeptember 29, 1922

Seasons13 (1908–1922)

Philadelphia Athletics 1908–1914; New York Yankees 1916–1919; New York Yankees 1921–1922

Percentile snapshot

1919 season — qualified batters

141

98.4

622

96.8

567

98.4

76.6

166

94.4

8.9

RBI

94.4

78.2

63.7

57.3

.293

63.7

OBP

.346

62.1

SLG

.388

54.8

OPS

.734

58.1

wRC+

105.3

OPS+

106.2

50.8

wOBA

.349

57.3

sWAR

2.8

75.8

of 125 qualified 1919 batters (min 437 PA) · 1 stat not shown: every qualified player held the same value, so a percentile there carries no information

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

133.8

93.2

OPS+

137.0

94.5

sWAR

53.2

99.1

wRC+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; OPS+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; sWAR measured against every career in history, 24,011 of them. Only era-adjusted career stats carry a percentile — a raw career total gets a rank instead, because pooling the 1890s with the 2020s is a choice, not a measurement.

Season by season

Batting

Season	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1908	9	33	31	5	9	3	0	0	2	0	2	0	0	.290	.290	.387	.677	109.9	116.6	.321	0.2
1909	148	606	541	73	165	27	19	4	85	26	48	20	0	.305	.343	.447	.790	144.3	147.5	.378	5.5
1910	146	620	561	83	159	25	15	2	74	34	36	21	0	.283	.329	.392	.721	126.5	130.5	.348	4.3
1911	148	659	592	96	198	42	14	11	115	40	38	38	0	.334	.379	.508	.887	144.1	151.1	.415	6.1
1912	149	644	577	116	200	40	21	10	130	50	38	40	26	.347	.404	.541	.945	165.6	175.0	.443	7.8
1913	149	644	564	116	190	34	9	12	117	63	31	34	0	.337	.413	.493	.906	166.5	168.0	.433	7.9
1914	150	634	570	84	182	23	10	9	89	53	37	19	20	.319	.380	.442	.822	148.9	149.4	.397	6.2
1916	100	402	360	46	97	23	2	10	52	36	30	15	0	.269	.344	.428	.772	128.7	130.4	.373	3.0
1917	146	613	553	57	156	24	2	6	71	48	27	18	0	.282	.345	.365	.710	114.8	115.0	.349	3.5
1918	126	556	504	65	154	24	5	6	62	38	13	8	0	.306	.357	.409	.765	128.0	129.0	.373	4.0
1919	141	622	567	70	166	22	1	10	83	44	18	13	0	.293	.346	.388	.734	105.3	106.2	.349	2.8
1921	94	369	330	46	97	16	2	9	71	26	12	8	5	.294	.353	.436	.789	98.7	100.3	.363	1.3
1922	69	258	234	30	65	12	3	7	36	15	14	1	3	.278	.327	.444	.771	95.2	98.8	.351	0.8

Career totals

1,575

6,660

5,984

887

500th-most career R

1,838

381st-most career H

315

432nd-most career 2B

103

150th-most career 3B

RBI

987

320th-most career RBI

473

344

235

270th-most career SB

.3072

143rd-highest career batting average

OBP

.3628

416th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.4423

OPS

.8051

453rd-highest career OPS

A total is called out only where it ranks in the all-time top 500; hover a figure for its rank and the size of the field it was ranked in. Ranks are absolute facts and carry no percentile — the population for "career home runs" would be an editorial choice, and the rank is not.

Best games

Batting

Date	Game	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	TB
1911-09-26	DET @ ATH Gameday	5	2	4	2	0	2	4	0	12
1911-07-03	ATH @ NYY Gameday	5	2	4	1	1	1	2	0	10
1911-05-24	ATH @ CLE Gameday	5	3	5	2	1	0	0	0	9
1914-06-26	MIN @ ATH Gameday	4	2	3	0	0	2	5	0	9
1921-08-10	CWS @ NYY Gameday	3	3	3	0	0	2	5	2	9

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1908-04-14	ATH @ NYY Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1908-04-16	ATH @ NYY Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1908-04-17	ATH @ NYY Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1908-04-18	ATH @ BOS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1908-04-20	ATH @ BOS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Ranked from our own play-by-play game log, which begins in 1901 — not from the record book, so a career played outside it shows nothing here rather than a short list.

Honors

Hall of Fame, 1955 (Veterans)

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.