{{short description|American baseball player (1940–1974)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}} {{Infobox baseball biography | name = Bob Baird | image = | position = Pitcher | birth_date = January 16, 1940 | birth_place = Knoxville, Tennessee, US | death_date = {{death date and age|1974|4|11|1940|1|16}} | death_place = Chattanooga, Tennessee, US | bats = Left | throws = Left |debutleague = MLB | debutdate = September 3 | debutyear = 1962 | debutteam = Washington Senators |finalleague = MLB | finaldate = September 27 | finalyear = 1963 | finalteam = Washington Senators |statleague = MLB | stat1label = Win–loss record | stat1value = 0–4 | stat2label = Earned run average | stat2value = 7.25 | stat3label = Strikeouts | stat3value = 10 | teams = * Washington Senators ({{baseball year|1962}}–{{baseball year|1963}}) }} '''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 {{convert|6|ft|4|in}} tall and weighed {{convert|195|lb}}. 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<small>{{fraction|1|3}}</small> 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.<ref name="bang8">Lee, Bill, ''The Baseball Necrology.'' Jefferson, NC: Macfarland & Company, 2015. {{ISBN|978-0-7864-4239-3}}; page 17</ref> Baird died in Chattanooga, Tennessee, at age 34, nine days after he was shot by a woman who was charged with his murder.<ref>{{cite book |title=The Baseball Book 1992 |last1=James |first1=Bill |publisher=Villard Books |year=1992 |page=359}}</ref>
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