:Jim Baechtold

{{short description|American basketball player and academic}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}}

{{Infobox basketball biography

| name = Jim Baechtold

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| position = Forward / guard

| height_ft = 6

| height_in = 4

| weight_lb = 205

| number = 18, 10

| birth_date = {{birth date|1927|12|09}}

| birth_place = McKeesport, Pennsylvania, U.S.

|death_date = {{death date and age|2011|8|29|1927|12|09}}

|death_place = Richmond, Kentucky, U.S.

| high_school = Moon (Coraopolis, Pennsylvania)

| college = Eastern Kentucky (1948–1952)

| draft_round = 1

| draft_pick = 2

| draft_year = 1952

| draft_team = Baltimore Bullets

| career_start = 1952

| career_end = 1957

| years1 = {{nbay|1952|full=y}}

| team1 = Baltimore Bullets

| years2 = 1953

| team2 = Elmira Colonels

| years3 = {{nbay|1953|start}}–{{nbay|1956|end}}

| team3 = New York Knicks

| highlights =

| stats_league = NBA

| stat1label = Points

| stat1value = 3,123 (9.7 ppg)

| stat2label = Rebounds

| stat2value = 1,009 (3.1 rpg)

| stat3label = Assists

| stat3value = 685 (2.1 apg)

| bbr = baechji01

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James E. Baechtold (December 9, 1927 – August 29, 2011[http://www.wkyt.com/obits/headlines/Obituary_-__128697168.html Obituary] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120325060746/http://www.wkyt.com/obits/headlines/Obituary_-__128697168.html |date=2012-03-25 }}. Retrieved on September 1, 2011.) was an American basketball player and professor at Eastern Kentucky University.