Arnold Ray McBride (born February 3, 1949), nicknamed "Shake 'n Bake" and "the Callaway Kid", is an American former professional baseball outfielder, who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the St. Louis Cardinals, Philadelphia Phillies, and Cleveland Indians between 1973 and 1983.

Though McBride ran with impressive speed, more than half of his 11 MLB seasons were significantly shortened due to injury or illness.

He had surgeries on both of his knees during his playing career, and he missed almost all of the 1982 season with an eye infection related to his use of contact lenses.

The elder Arnold McBride had been a pitcher for the Negro league baseball team known as the Kansas City Monarchs.

Bake McBride starred in football at Fulton High School, earning all-state honors, and he also played basketball and ran track.

[6] In his first at bat at the Class AAA level, McBride hit a ball off of the outfield wall and seemed to collect a triple, but he was called out for failing to touch second base.

[7] McBride made his major league debut for the Cardinals in 1973, but he retained his rookie status after only appearing in 40 games that year.

He hit an infield single, and then he scored from first base when pitcher Hank Webb's pickoff attempt went into right field and the catcher made an error while receiving the throw to home plate.

[12] As a young Cardinals player, McBride said that he learned a great deal from the influence of teammate Lou Brock.

When combined with McBride's 30 steals, the total set a single-season MLB record for stolen bases by two teammates.

[16] McBride, then known as "The Callaway Kid" after the name of his home county, completed a conditioning program in the offseason to strengthen his slender physique, gaining ten pounds before the 1976 season and starting strong in April.

Rapp was known as a disciplinarian and he prohibited the players from having facial hair, which caused conflict with McBride and with teammate Al Hrabosky.

[25] He was nearly dealt along with Tug McGraw and Larry Christenson to the Texas Rangers for Sparky Lyle and Johnny Grubb at the 1979 Winter Meetings in Toronto, but the proposed transaction was nixed by Phillies owner Ruly Carpenter over a deferred payments clause in Lyle's contract.

[27] In July 1980, Bill Lyon of The Philadelphia Inquirer wrote that many fans unfairly stereotyped McBride as a lazy player because of his bad knees and his low-key personality.

Lyon wrote that because McBride did not talk about his injuries a lot to the public, most people did not realize that his knee joint had significantly eroded and that he was "essentially, a one-legged player."

[28] Despite the pain in his feet and knees, McBride was characterized by manager Dallas Green as the most consistent player on the team in 1980.

McBride said that he would have to become accustomed to pitchers in the American League, but he thought that the grass field in Cleveland would provide a more favorable playing surface for his surgically repaired knees than the artificial turf in Philadelphia.

Because Monge had refused a smaller contract offer from the Phillies when he was a free agent before the season, Marvin Miller of the Major League Baseball Players Association (MLBPA) criticized the trade as an example of collusive efforts between baseball owners to sidestep the rules surrounding free agency.

[36] Just before the 1983 season, McBride said that he had not had eye problems since January, when he began wearing contact lenses made for him by doctors in Boston.

[10] In 1989, McBride came out of retirement and played for the St. Petersburg Pelicans and Orlando Juice of the Senior Professional Baseball Association.