During his playing days, Don Baylor stood 6-foot-1 and weighed a rock-solid 201 pounds. He crowded the plate and dug in with menacing toughness. When he retired at the end of the 1988 season at age 39, he had been hit by pitches 267 times, a major-league record at the time.
His New York Yankees teammate Ken Griffey Sr. once joked that when Baylor got drilled, the trainers would put the ball on a stretcher and carry it off the field.
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