Home Run Baker — public-domain portrait (Library of Congress / Wikimedia Commons)

1913ATHLETICS

THIRD BASE

HOME RUN BAKER1913

Home Run Bakerthird base · 1913 athletics

Ht 5'11"Wt 173Bats LThrows RBorn 1886 · Trappe, MD

Nineteen thirteen kept the meter mean in Philadelphia. Home Run Baker hit .337 with twelve homers and one hundred seventeen ribbies — dead-ball power wrapped in Mack flannel. SkillScore one hundred thirty-five point seven seven. The three frames ahead keep the power year humming.

Home Run Baker 1913 — .337 METER

.337 METER

A .337 gauge in Mack flannel — no drama, just production.

Home Run Baker 1913 — 12-STACK POWER

12-STACK POWER

Twelve homers stacked like chimneys — dead-ball thunder counted loud.

Home Run Baker 1913 — MACK'S CORNER

MACK'S CORNER

Hot corner of the $100,000 infield — Baker tipping the rented cap.

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Major League Batting — Year vs Life

GABRH2B3BHRRBIAVGOBPSLG
1913149564116190349121170.3370.4130.493
Life1,5755,9848871,838315103969870.3070.3630.442

SkillScore

135.771913 · PHA

ComponentsAVG 0.337OBP 0.413SLG 0.493

John Franklin Baker, Philadelphia Athletics. Library of Congress / Wikimedia Commons (File:John_Franklin_Baker,_baseball_player_for_Philadelphia_Athletics,_head-and-shoulders_portrait,_facing_front,_wearing_baseball_uniform_LCCN89714217.jpg). Public domain.