According to Dickson Preston’s book “Trappe The Story of An Old Fashioned Town” 1996, Trappe native Frank Baker’s first baseball semi-pro job was playing for Ridgely at $5 a week in 1905! By 1909 he was a Philadelphia Athletic’s Major League third baseman! After the 1922 season he retired back to Trappe, Maryland and ran his farms. Frank “Home Run” Baker was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1955. Photographer Laird Wise restored this J. Franklin Baker, Jr. Collection photo for Dickson Preston’s Trappe history book. It was recently found in Mr. Wise’s photo collection at the Talbot Historical Society. Contact: Cathy Hill [email protected] to share your old photos. Comment, Like our page and join THS!
Talbot Historical Society Project Rewind: Batter’s Up
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Stephen Schaare says
Oh thank you for something, anything positive, about Talbot County. I have been lifted.
Mike Callahan says
It’s not Talbot County but remember that Buck Herzog, who set a long – held record of 12 hits in a world series, retired to Ridgely where his farm surrounded the elementary school until developed as housing in the late ’90s.