Jim Baker is a sports columnist who covered the Buffalo Bills and the national and regional television-radio beat at The Buffalo Courier-Express for 20 years, following graduation from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1963. He remained until the newspaper closed in 1983 and then became the Boston Herald's TV-radio columnist from 1983 until his retirement in 2004. He has written five books on sports subjects: "O.J. Simpson," 1974, Grosset & Dunlap. "The Buffalo Bills: O.J. Simpson, Rushing Champion," 1974, Prentice-Hall; "Billie Jean King," 1975, Grosset & Dunlap; "O.

J. Simpson's Most Memorable Games," 1978, G.P. Putnam's Sons; and "A View From the Booth: Gil Santos and Gino Cappelletti-25 Years of Broadcasting the New England Patriots," 2008, Rounder Books.