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New Malton, Yorkshire born George Baker was a right-handed middle order batsman, who scored 7,563 runs in 249 first class matches, at an average of 21.28 with 4 centuries and 39 fifties. He began his career playing for Yorkshire in 1884, and first appeared for Lancashire in 1887. His best score was 186 against Sussex, and he posted 153 against Nottinghamshire, 140 against Hampshire and 109 against Kent. He was a fairly moderate performer until 1894, though his first century came in 1892. He passed 1,000 runs in a season only three times, with a best of 1,444 runs in 1897 at an average of 32.81. His three highest centuries came in that season, and his Lancashire aggregate and average in a season in which the team won the County Championship, was exceeded only by Albert Ward.
He took 152 catches and was an increasingly useful bowler, taking 145 first class wickets at an average of 24.93 with his right-arm medium pace, including spells of 6-18 against Gloucestershire in 1896 and 6-28 against Sussex in 1898. He took 5 wickets in four other innings.
Despite his apparently modest career figures, Baker was accorded a benefit season by Lancashire in 1898, which raised £1,850. His obituary in Wisden in 1939 noted that he was a man of “happy disposition and popular with everyone”. He retired from first class cricket after the 1899 season, and was later cricket coach at Harrow School for twelve years.
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