Baseball player?

This is a rather good looking grotesque found outside Lincoln Cathedral.  We have been in Lincoln for a wander round and are staying in a hotel near the cathdral.  An amazing building.  We didn't go inside as there was a service on when we arrived, but have walked all the way around the outside.  I was delighted to see that the art of making grotesques is still active as we came across a few different ones:a hooded key holder, a skull with pound signs in its eyes and a coin in its mouth, and this one, all in the same area.  

Unfortunately I haven't found any info about this grotesque.  At first I thought a pilot and then Ro reckoned a baseball player, plus bat.  Anyone out there know?

We can hear the chimes from the cathedral from our room!