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 a City Councilman of Irvine, California in the mid-1980s. He left his political career in 1988 after being convicted of forgery in California for attempting to forge a $48,000 check from the nonprofit Irvine Health Foundation (of which he was executive director) for use as campaign funds during a run for a Congressional seat. On November 8, 1996, Baker became the fourth commissioner of the Arena Football League. He started in the league as the owner of the Anaheim Piranhas, which he left after a single season of owning the team to become league commissioner. Baker resigned as Arena Football League Commissioner at ArenaBowl XXII, on July 25, 2008, after almost twelve years as commissioner. From 2009 to 2014, he was Managing Partner for Union Village, an integrated health care village...