C. David Baker

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Carl David Baker (born February 16, 1953) is an American former football executive and politician. He was President and CEO of the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio from 2014 to 2021. Baker was raised in Downey, California, the son of a lumber mill worker father and foster child caregiver mother. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature and Criticism from the University of California, Irvine and his Juris Doctor from the Pepperdine University School of Law, during which time he served as the Editor-in-Chief of the Pepperdine Law Review. One of Baker's more imposing aspects is his size, standing at 6 feet 9 inches (2.06 m) tall and weighing around 400 pounds (180 kg). He was a basketball power forward at UC Irvine from 1971–75 where he established the school record for career rebounds (926) that stood for 44 years until broken by Jonathan Galloway in 2019. Baker also played two seasons of professional basketball in Switzerland before attending law school. Baker was...

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