TRAILER: Searching for Hobey Baker

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🗓️ 9 May 2024

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Every hockey fan knows the name Hobey Baker - collegiate hockey’s most prestigious trophy is named after him - but very few know the real story of this all-time great athlete. Using an archive of personal letters and source materials provided by the Mudd Library at Princeton University, as well as original research, the series charts Hobey’s glory days as the best collegiate hockey and football player in the nation, his post-grad ennui in Gilded Age New York City, and his exploits as a WWI fighter pilot, which ended tragically in a mysterious crash in 1918. Beyond Hobey’s adventures on the ice and in the air, this podcast also re-contextualizes the hockey legend through the lens of his lesser known struggles as a queer man in the early 20th century. Listen to the three-part series wherever you get your podcasts June 12th. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Throughout the game,
0:04.4	game Hobie Baker was everywhere and almost every time he shot the puck at the
0:08.6	opposing net it reached the mark.
0:10.8	If one game can get you into the Hockey Hall of Fame, this was it.
0:16.0	In the years just before World War I, Hobie Baker starred for Princeton University in hockey and football and remains the only athlete in both the college football and hockey Hall of Fames.
0:28.0	They had no numbers on their jerseys and he never wore a helmet, so he was recognizable not only by his speed but by his
0:36.2	blonde hair.
0:37.2	You couldn't ignore him this kind of blonde Adonis.
0:40.3	And that's contributed of course I think to the legend of Hobie Baker.
0:45.0	As famous as he was in his day,
0:48.0	he is little remembered now,
0:50.0	except for the fact that the award for the best men's college hockey player now bears his name,
0:55.2	the Hobie Baker Award.
0:56.7	He truly was the natural and that people were just absolutely blown away by watching what he could do.
1:02.8	They said he was absolutely graceful.
1:05.2	The whole atmosphere was electric when he was playing.
1:08.4	Everybody would just stand up when he got the puck or caught the punt.
1:12.4	Whenever Hobie played football or hockey, the rich and famous flocked to his games,
1:17.0	including one of America's wealthiest men, Percy Rivington Pine II.
1:22.0	And he had this hero work Percy Rivington Pine the second.
1:22.5	And he had this hero worship of Hobie.
1:25.8	He couldn't spend enough time with Hobie.
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