Name: John Franklin "Home Run" Baker
Position: Third base
Born: March 13, 1886 (Trappe, MD)
Died: June 28, 1963 (Trappe, MD)
Yankee Years: 1916-22
Primary number: N/A
Yankee statistics: 676 G, .288/.347/.404, 121 2B, 15 3B, 48 HR, 114 wRC+, 20.5 rWAR, 19.3 fWAR
Biography
There was once a time when home runs were considered unusual, mostly due to an accident on defense allowing a batter to circle the bases. Several years before the days of Babe Ruth though, another Maryland-born slugger emerged on baseball's greatest stage to deliver homer history's first huge moment, and fittingly, he became a Yankee himself.