Crosbie Baber

{{short description|Canadian cricketer}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2021}}

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| country = Canada

| fullname = Walter Crosbie Baber

| birth_date = 21 September 1880

| birth_place = British Barbados

| death_date = 1959 (aged 78/79)

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| batting = Unknown

| bowling = Unknown

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| columns = 1

| column1 = First-class

| matches1 = 1

| runs1 = 17

| bat avg1 = 8.50

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| top score1 = 17

| deliveries1 = 132

| wickets1 = 3

| bowl avg1 = 33.66

| fivefor1 = –

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| best bowling1 = 3/101

| catches/stumpings1 = –/–

| date = 30 January

| year = 2022

| source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/25676.html Cricinfo

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Walter Crosbie Baber (21 September 1880 – 1959) was a Barbadian-born Canadian first-class cricketer.

Baber was born at British Barbados in September 1880. He later emigrated to Canada, where he played for several provincial teams. He also played club cricket in the United States and was a member of the Staten Island Cricket Club.{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/27/27209/27209.html|title=First-Class Matches played by Crosbie Baber|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=2022-01-30|url-access=subscription}} He made a single appearance in first-class cricket for a combined Canada and United States of America cricket team against the touring Australians at Rosedale in 1913.{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/27/27209/First-Class_Matches.html|title=First-Class Matches played by Corsbie Baber|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=2022-01-30|url-access=subscription}} He took the wickets of Charlie Macartney, Sid Emery, and Austin Diamond for the cost of 101 runs. Batting twice from the middle order, he scored 17 runs in the Canada/United States first innings before being dismissed by Leslie Cody, while following-on in their second innings he was dismissed by without scoring by Macartney.{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/9/9155.html|title=Canada and United States of America v Australians, 1913|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=2022-01-30|url-access=subscription}}

He attended McGill University in 1913, before serving in the First World War as a lieutenant in the Canadian Expeditionary Force.{{cite web|url=https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/military-heritage/first-world-war/first-world-war-1914-1918-cef/Pages/item.aspx?IdNumber=18641|title=Item: Baber, Walter Crosbie|publisher=www.bac-lac.gc.ca|accessdate=2022-01-30}} Following the war, he returned to McGill to complete his studies. Crosbie was living in New York City in 1937 as a partner in the firm Bayliss, Baber & Co., in evidence given to a tax evasion hearing to the Joint Committee on Tax Evasion and Avoidance before the United States Congress.{{cite book |title=Hearings, June 17-18, 22-24, 1937|publisher=United States Government Publishing Office|year=1937|pages=93–100|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=f9Q7AQAAMAAJ|language=en}} He died in 1959.{{cite web|url=https://livesofthefirstworldwar.iwm.org.uk/lifestory/5552814|title=Walter Corsbie Baber|publisher=www.iwm.org.uk|accessdate=2022-01-30}}