Charles Michael Baker (18 June 1880 – 4 May 1962) was an

Australian rules football Australian football, also called Australian rules football or Aussie rules, or more simply football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of 18 players on an oval field, often a modified cricket ground. Points are scored by k ...

er who played in the

Victorian Football League The Victorian Football League (VFL) is an Australian rules football league in Australia serving as one of the second-tier regional semi-professional competitions which sit underneath the fully professional Australian Football League (AFL). It ...

(VFL). Recruited from

St Patrick's College, Ballarat , motto_translation = To Do and To Teach , city = Ballarat , state = Victoria , country = Australia , coordinates = , type = Independent second ...

, 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 Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striki ...

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.

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1880 births St Kilda Football Club players Victoria cricketers VFL Leading Goalkicker Medal winners Australian rules footballers from Ballarat 1962 deaths {{AFL-bio-1880-stub

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