Joe Baker
Joseph Henry Baker (17 August 1940 – 6 October 2003) was a professional footballer who played at club level for Hibernian , Torino , Arsenal , Nottingham Forest , Sunderland and Raith Rovers . At the age of 26 he achieved the feat of having scored 100 top division goals in both Scotland and England. He made eight appearances for the England national team , scoring three goals. Born to a Scottish mother and English father in Liverpool , Baker spent the first six weeks of his life in England and was then raised in Scotland until he moved to Italy aged 20. Despite self-identifying as Scottish, 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. — Wikipedia
- Position
- FW
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Birthplace
- Woolton
- Born
- 17 Jul 1940
- Height
- 170 cm
Baker then moved to Sunderland for a fee of £30,000, and spent the following two seasons playing for the Black Cats . [ 7 ] He returned to Hibernian for a second time in 1971 and scored 17 goals in 34 appearances. This gave him a final Hibs tally of 158 goals from 193 starts. [ 5 ] He moved to Raith Rovers in 1972 and retired in 1974. He ended his professional career with 301 league goals in 507 games. — Wikipedia
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