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The most famous athlete of his era, Hobey Baker dazzled teammates and rivals alike. Handsome, charming and supremely athletic, he is the only individual to be inducted in both the Hockey Hall of Fame and the College Football Hall of Fame. Three years after graduating from Princeton, Baker fought in World War One along with flying ace Eddie Rickenbaker against the deadly Flying Circus of Baron Richthofen, the Red Knight of Germany. Baker's untimely death at age 27 in France just as the Great War ended has been shrouded in mystery for almost ninety years. Salvini puts the mystery to rest after all of these years. Fellow Princetonian F. Scott Fitzgerald described Baker as, "an ideal worthy of everything in my enthusiastic admiration, yet consummated and expressed in a human being who stood within ten feet of me."
- Author
- Salvini, Emil R.
- Publisher
- St. Paul, Minn.: Hobey Baker Memorial Foundation
- Published
- 2005
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780976345305
- Subjects
- Anthropology, Social_sciences
- Rating
- 4.7 / 5 (18 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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