fullname youthclubs clubs death_date death_place caps birth_place goals nationalteam totalcaps position nationalcaps nationalyears birth_date totalgoals article_title name nationalgoals
archibald mackechnie baird rutherglen glencairn strathclyde rutherglen glencairn strathclyde 3 november 2009 aberdeen , scotland 129 77 rutherglen , scotland 35 3 scotland 206 inside forward 1 1946 8 may 1919 38 archie baird
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archie baird

archie baird -lrb- 8 may 1919 -- 3 november 2009 -rrb- was a scottish association football player who played for aberdeen and st. johnstone .
he was also capped once by the scotland national football team .
baird was born in rutherglen .
baird signed for aberdeen before the second world war , but the war started before he had made the first team .
he joined the british army , but was captured and held as a prisoner of war .
he escaped and lived with an italian family as their `` son '' .
in 1989 he published an autobiography , `` family of four '' , which described these experiences .
baird returned to aberdeen before the end of the war .
his good form in this period earned him selection for scotland in a friendly match against belgium in early 1946 .
baird was one of nine scotland players making their international debut in the match , with only jimmy delaney having significant experience .
of those nine debutants , five players did not make another international appearance , including baird .
baird helped aberdeen win the southern league cup -lrb- a forerunner of the scottish league cup -rrb- in 1946 and the 1947 scottish cup , but his appearances were restricted by injuries .
in all he made 104 league appearances for aberdeen , scoring 26 goals in those matches .
he was transferred in 1953 to st. johnstone , where he played for three seasons before retiring in 1956 .
after retiring as a player , baird worked as a teacher and a sports journalist .
baird celebrated his 90th birthday in may 2009 , and died quietly in his sleep on 3 november 2009 .
