David Baggett

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David Jack Baggett (born Derby, Derbyshire, England 16 March 1933) is an English statistician and cricket umpire.

Baggett is a retired computer consultant and he had a long career in Derbyshire club cricket as a player and umpire. In a 46 year playing career as a wicketkeeper-batsman, his career aggregates totalled more than 1,200 dismissals and 20,000 runs. He has represented Derbyshire at over-50 level and since 1986 has been on the Umpires panel for County 2nd XI championship matches.

He has made a significant contribution to the ACS as a proof reader for every publication after 1989. He has the twin advantages of having an encyclopaedic knowledge of cricket and has a sharp eye for English grammar and punctuation. He estimated at the writer's behest that he had detected more than 7,000 errors in the early production stages of the first 50 ACS booklets that he handled - leaving aside the Journal - and they ranged from inaccurate facts to misplaced commas.

He succeeded Eric Midwinter as the President of the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians in 2004 and he succeeded Stan Tovey as the editor of the Derbyshire CCC Annual Yearbook.