Dr. Lenox Baker
Sports Medicine
Inducted: 1983
- Native of Texas
- Graduated from the University of Tennessee and Duke Medical School
- Pioneer in sports medicine while on the staff of Duke Hospital
- Orthopedic surgeon whose patients included such notables as Babe Ruth and Dizzy Dean
- In 1971 he became the first director of the N.C. Department of Human Resources
- Died in 1995 at the age of 92