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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Joseph Henry Baker[1] | ||
| Date of birth | 17 August 1940[2] | ||
| Place of birth | Woolton, Liverpool, England | ||
| Date of death | 6 October 2003 (aged 63) | ||
| Place of death | Wishaw, Scotland | ||
| Position(s) | Centre forward | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| Coltness United | |||
| 1956–1961 | Hibernian | 117 | (102) |
| 1956–1957 | → Armadale Thistle (loan) | ||
| 1961–1962 | Torino | 19 | (7) |
| 1962–1966 | Arsenal | 144 | (93) |
| 1966–1969 | Nottingham Forest | 118 | (41) |
| 1969–1971 | Sunderland | 40 | (12) |
| 1971–1972 | Hibernian | 20 | (12) |
| 1972–1974 | Raith Rovers | 49 | (34) |
| Total | 507 | (301) | |
| International career | |||
| 1958–1963[3] | England Under-23 | 6 | (4) |
| 1959–1966 | England | 8 | (3) |
| Managerial career | |||
| 1981 | Albion Rovers | ||
| 1984–1985 | Albion Rovers | ||
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Joseph Henry Baker (17 August 1940 – 6 October 2003) was an England international footballer. Born to Scots parents and spending the first 6 weeks of his life in Liverpool in England, he was then raised and lived in Scotland until he was 20. By 10 days after his 26th birthday, he had scored 100 top division goals in each of Scotland and England. Despite self-identifying as Scots, rules at the time meant his only international football eligibility was for his birth nation. His full England debut in 1959 made him the first professional footballer to represent England while playing for a club outside the English football league system, and the first to have never played for an English club before his full England debut.
- ^ "Joe Baker". Barry Hugman's Footballers. Retrieved 11 February 2021.
- ^ https://web.archive.org/web/20070928082308/http://users.quista.net/fraserp/Season87-88/bakers.htm
- ^ "Joe Baker". England Football Online. Retrieved 2 November 2018.