[2] He became a first team regular in 1958, and played an important part in the club's Third Division title campaign a year later.
[2] After that success, Baker sustained a knee injury which eventually brought his career at Home Park to an end.
He played in the match where Rowley broke Dixie Dean's record for most goals scored in the Football League.
[6] Wales progressed to the quarter-finals of the competition,[7] where they were knocked out by Brazil, but Baker was an unused substitute in all five matches.
[8] He, Graham Vearncombe, John Elsworthy and Len Allchurch were in the 22-man squad but never went to the tournament, as they were not booked onto the aeroplane.