Obituary: Joe Baker

Striking English striker Joe Baker, the former Hibernian and Arsenal striker who has died aged 63, was one of the most accomplished soccer forwards of the 1960s and the first player to be selected for England while representing a club outside the Football League.

Baker was a teenage prodigy who made his name with Hibernian in the late 1950s. He scored 113 goals in 139 league games for the Edinburgh side and, shortly after his 18th birthday got his first cap for the country of his birth, England.

During a stint with Italian club Torino - having been sent off for fighting, fined for missing training and cautioned for pushing a photographer into a canal - he crashed his Alfa Romeo and spent six weeks in hospital on a drip.

He was sold to Arsenal, where he enjoyed perhaps his best years, scoring 100 goals in 156 games and earning a brief England recall. He died after collapsing while playing golf at Lanark.