Maclyn “Mac” Baker was an early football,  basketball and baseball star at New York University. There was no national collegiate basketball tournament until the the late 1930’s, so prior to that time strong college teams occasionally entered the national AAU championship tournament.  In 1920, Baker, along with teammate Howard Cann, led NYU to the the AAU basketball championship played in Atlanta. Cann and Baker were both named first teamAll-Americans. Baker had the ability  to pursue a career in both professional baseball and basketball, but chose a career in medicine over sports.

Frank Baird graduated from Arsenal Technical High School in Indianapolis in 1930 and from Butler University in 1934. While at Butler he  lettered three years in both varsity basketball and baseball. Baird was retroactively named a 1933 Basketball All-American by the the Helms Foundation. Baird played professional basketball for nine seasons with the Indianapolis Kautskys. In  1939, he set a single game scoring record by hitting 15 of 19 field goal attempts and 3 of 3 free throws, for 33 points. Baird worked as a teacher and coach in the Indianapolis Public School District at Broad Ripple High School for 42 years. He successfully coached baseball for 36 years and basketball for 17 years leading the Rockets to the state tournament final four in 1945. Baird also was  a respected sports referee, officiating in high school and college football games for 42 years and high school and college basketball games for 32 years.  He was elected to the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame, the Indiana Football Hall of Fame and the Indiana Baseball Hall of Fame