Bob Baird

Robert Allen Baird (January 16, 1940 – April 11, 1974) was an American professional baseball player, a left-handed pitcher who appeared in eight total games in Major League Baseball over parts of two seasons with the Washington Senators (1962–1963). Born in Knoxville, Tennessee, Baird stood 6 feet 4 inches (1.93 m) tall and weighed 195 pounds (88 kg). He attended Carson Newman College.

Bob Baird
Pitcher
Born: January 16, 1940
Knoxville, Tennessee
Died: April 11, 1974(1974-04-11) (aged 34)
Chattanooga, Tennessee
Batted: Left Threw: Left
MLB debut
September 3, 1962, for the Washington Senators
Last MLB appearance
September 27, 1963, for the Washington Senators
MLB statistics
Win–loss record0–4
Earned run average7.25
Strikeouts10
Teams

Baird had a six-year (1962–1967) professional career. The Senators, then a two-year-old expansion team, brought Baird up for an audition during the September of his first year in pro ball, 1962, and gave him three starts. Then, the following September, they called him up again and used him in five games, three as a starter. But Baird went winless in four decisions. In 22​1⁄3 MLB innings pitched, he allowed 25 hits, 15 bases on balls, and 18 earned runs. He fanned ten. Baird appeared in 148 games in minor league baseball, where he fashioned a 47–46 record and a 3.99 earned run average.

After baseball, Baird was a traveling salesman for a Cincinnati-based company.[1] Baird died in Chattanooga, Tennessee, at age 34, nine days after he was shot by a woman who was charged with his murder.[2] He is interred in Lynnhurst Cemetery in Knoxville.[3]

References
  1. Lee, Bill, The Baseball Necrology. Jefferson, NC: Macfarland & Company, 2015. ISBN 978-0-7864-4239-3; page 17
  2. James, Bill (1992). The Baseball Book 1992. Villard Books. p. 359.
  3. "Robert Allen Baird," Find a Grave


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