Bob Baird, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Bob Baird

American baseball player

Date of Birth: 16-Jan-1940

Place of Birth: Knoxville, Tennessee, United States

Date of Death: 11-Apr-1974

Profession: baseball player

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Robert Allen Baird (January 16, 1940 – April 11, 1974) was an American professional baseball player, a left-handed pitcher who appeared in eight total games in Major League Baseball over parts of two seasons with the Washington Senators (1962–1963).
Born in Knoxville, Tennessee, Baird stood 6 feet 4 inches (1.93 m) tall and weighed 195 pounds (88 kg).
He attended Carson Newman College. Baird had a six-year (1962–1967) professional career.
The Senators, then a two-year old expansion team, brought Baird up for an audition during the September of his first year in pro ball, 1962, and gave him three starts.
Then, the following September, they called him up again and used him in five games, three as a starter.
But Baird went winless in four decisions.
In 22?1/3 MLB innings pitched, he allowed 25 hits, 15 bases on balls, and 18 earned runs.
He fanned ten.
Baird appeared in 148 games in minor league baseball, where he fashioned a 47–46 record and a 3.99 earned run average. After baseball, Baird was a traveling salesman for a Cincinnati-based company.
He died in Chattanooga, Tennessee, at age 34, nine days after he was shot by a woman.
There are conflicting accounts of the circumstances: the website Dead Ball Era lists his death as a homicide and occurring during an argument with his assailant, while Find a Grave classifies it as an accidental shooting.
He is interred in Lynnhurst Cemetery in Knoxville.