It literally took breaking a leg one summer for Ray Baker to find his true passion…the saxophone.
Baseball was the culprit. The soon-to-be- high school student was sliding into second base the first game of the season when it happened.
“I had a cast on my leg for the entire summer, so there was no baseball for me,” Ray said. “The only thing I could do was to play my saxophone. I did not get the cast off until September, so there was no playing football in the ninth grade.”
As the youngest of nine children, Ray said he grew up in a very “sports-minded” family. His father, Jesse, played baseball in the Negro Baseball League and coached Little League Baseball in Manhattan, KS where they lived.
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