Johnny Baker (linebacker)
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Position: | Linebacker / tight end | ||||||||
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Born: | Camden, Alabama, U.S. | March 15, 1941||||||||
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College: | Mississippi State | ||||||||
NFL draft: | 1963 / round: 3 / pick: 37 (by the Los Angeles Rams)[1] | ||||||||
AFL draft: | 1963 / round: 7 / pick: 54 | ||||||||
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John Hendrix Baker, III (born March 15, 1941) is an American former professional football linebacker and tight end. He played college football at Mississippi State University, where he was a linebacker and an offensive end. He played in the American Football League (AFL) for the Houston Oilers from 1963 through 1966 and the San Diego Chargers in 1967.
Personal life
[edit]Baker married Carla Swanson, a member of the Swanson TV dinners family, on June 22, 1968, at Kountze Memorial Lutheran Church in Omaha, Nebraska.[2] He has a daughter named Cara and three sons : Jason, Jacob, and Joshua. Joshua pitched in the College World Series for the Rice Owls. Baker is the father-in-law of Major League Baseball player Lance Berkman.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "1963 Los Angeles Rams". databaseFootball.com. Archived from the original on April 10, 2007. Retrieved July 18, 2020.
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: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ "Miss Swanson Wed Saturday Afternoon". The Omaha World-Herald Newspaper, Omaha, Douglas County, NE, USA. June 23, 1968.
- 1941 births
- Living people
- People from Camden, Alabama
- Players of American football from Alabama
- American football linebackers
- American football tight ends
- Mississippi State Bulldogs football players
- Houston Oilers players
- San Diego Chargers players
- American Football League players
- 20th-century American sportsmen
- American football linebacker, 1940s birth stubs
- American football tight end, pre-1950 birth stubs