Amateur Star, War Hero and Now Philadelphia Sports Hall of Famer
The following article featuring Princeton legend Hobey Baker appeared in the November 11 issue of the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Hobart Amory Hare Baker will be inducted into the Philadelphia Sports Hall of Fame Thursday night with a host of far more recognizable names - Dick Allen, Leroy Kelly, Tug McGraw, Jersey Joe Walcott, Mike Quick.
He will not be at the Sheraton Society Hill, of course. Hobey Baker died 92 years ago, at 26, test-piloting a World War I fighter plane in the rainy skies above Toul, France.
The remarkable resume he amassed in that brief lifetime reads like some early-20th-century hybrid of the Boy Scout Oath and a Jack Armstrong novel. An all-American athlete and a war hero, Baker was Pat Tillman without the ambiguities.
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