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.