heightweight death_date death_place years birth_place clubs image_size statsend originalteam birth_date image article_title name
185 cm / 90 kg 10 december 1961 doncaster , victoria 1910 -- 1924 hotham east , victoria essendon 100 1924 east melbourne 15 december 1890 fred baring.jpg fred baring
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fred baring

frederick albert baring -lrb- 15 december 1890 -- 10 december 1961 -rrb- was an australian rules footballer who played with essendon in the victorian football league -lrb- vfl -rrb- during the early 1900s .
in 1997 he was named at fullback in essendon 's official team of the century .
a premiership player with the bombers four times , baring started his career as a ruckman and ended it as a fullback .
he kicked the sealer in the 1912 grand final and captained essendon for the 1918 vfl season .
in 1913 he won the essendon best and fairest award .
he was a vfl interstate representative at the 1911 adelaide carnival .
during his career baring played under the pseudonym `` adamson '' , when he was unable to get approved leave to play in the vfl from his employer .
baring was also a successful cricketer and played sheffield shield matches for victoria .
a right-handed batsman , he managed a total of 30 first-class matches between 1911/12 and 1928/29 , scoring 1846 runs at 32.96 .
following the death of victor trumper , baring was recognised as the best batsman in australia on poor pitches .
he came close to playing test cricket for australia after being named in their squad to tour south africa but the series was canceled due to world war i.
