Career

He is one of few Jewish Australian rules football players to have played at the top level A centreman recruited from Moorabbin in the Victorian Football Association (VFA), Baskin joined South in 1964, but only stayed the one season before going to Myrtleford in the Ovens & Murray Football League. He returned to South in 1967 and came third in the best and fairest count the following season.

In 1974 he spent a season as coach of VFA club Mordialloc.