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unusual facts about Home Run Baker



1913 Philadelphia Athletics season

In 2001, baseball historian Bill James ranked the 1913 incarnation of the Athletics' famous "$100,000 infield" as the best of all time in major league history (first baseman Stuffy McInnis, second baseman Eddie Collins, third baseman Frank "Home Run" Baker, shortstop Jack Barry).

Heinie Stafford

Stafford returned to baseball briefly during World War I, playing in the industrial leagues where his wartime teammates included Chief Bender and Home Run Baker.


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