Charlie Baker (Australian footballer)

This article is about the Australian rules football player. For other people, see Charles Baker (disambiguation).

Charlie Baker
Personal information
Full name	Charles Michael Baker
Date of birth	(1880-06-18)18 June 1880
Place of birth	Ballarat East, Victoria
Date of death	4 May 1962(1962-05-04) (aged 81)
Place of death	Ballarat, Victoria
Original team(s)	St Pats, Ballarat
Height	175 cm (5 ft 9 in)
Playing career^1
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1902–1906	St Kilda	76 (122)
^1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1906.
Career highlights
VFL leading goalkicker 1902 St Kilda leading goalkicker 1902, 1903, 1904 & 1905
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Charles Michael Baker (18 June 1880 – 4 May 1962) was an Australian rules footballer who played in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

Recruited from St Patrick's College, Ballarat, he played 76 games for St Kilda from 1902–1906, and kicked 122 goals, including four of which came in his first VFL game; at the time a club record. He represented Victoria in cricket from 1903-1905 and at football before an injury ended his career.

Baker won the Leading Goalkicker Medal in 1902, a season in which St Kilda kicked only 64 goals for the year (of which Baker kicked 46.9%) and finished last without winning a match, a VFL/AFL record seven matches behind second-last placed Geelong. Baker's proportion of his team's goals is also an VFL/AFL record.

See also

• List of Victoria first-class cricketers

References

• Charlie Baker's playing statistics from AFL Tables
• Cricinfo profile