Tracy Baker

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Trace Lee (Tracy) Baker (November 7, 1891 - March 14, 1975) was a first baseman in Major League Baseball who played for the Boston Red Sox. Baker batted and threw right handed. He was born in Pendleton, Oregon, and studied at the University of Washington.

Of the more than 16,000 players in major league history, Baker is also among the 900-plus players in the Elias Sports Bureau registry who got into only one game. He was 19 years old. Baker's one big-league game came on June 19, 1911. In his only at-bat appearance, he executed a sacrifice bunt. On the field he made four outs without committing an error.

Baker died in Placerville, California, at the age of 83.