"Baker was plugged into the Space Coast community. He’d previously penned a column: Brevard After Dark. He knew all the hot spots, and was a regular at the Carnival Club and a friend of the club's owner, Lee Caron. If Baker wanted an introduction to Shepard, he'd be just the person to get one," she wrote this week. "Baker was known for his infectious staccato laugh, his encyclopedic knowledge of plays and movies and his zest for life – just the kind of guy to persuade an American hero to do something the president of the United States had, according to Neuharth, called impossible."