Dave Albee
Marin Independent Journal
SAN FRANCISCO
From Steve Baker’s corner office on the 21st floor of Chevron’s former headquarters at 555 Market Street, one can be easily distracted looking around.(Continue Reading)
Gridiron to Glitz
NFL players are slowly crossing over into the entertainment industry
By Ron Thomas, IJ reporter
The tradition of football players who dabble in the fields of acting and modeling goes back almost as far as football itself. Now sports agent Steve Baker, a Mill Valley resident and Stars entertainment agency, which is owned by the Claxon family of Tiburon have teamed up, to try to continue that tradition with Oakland Raiders fullback Jon Ritchie and the San Francisco 49ers’ Jeff Garcia and Ray Brown.
Marin Independent Journal November 12, 2004
Garcia Tops Manning as Highest Paid for 2002-03
Even with three straight Pro Bowl appearances, and statistics topped only by a few players at his position, San Francisco 49ers quarterback Jeff Garcia still rates as one of the NFL’s most anonymous stars.(Continue Reading)
Negotiating Sports Contracts In the Nineties
Sports Attorney Steve Baker is an All Pro
By Jack Laufenberg, DOCKET- June 1994
Twenty-five years ago, when free agency was just a gleam in a young lawyer’s eye, all one really needed to be a sports agent was a working knowledge of the game and directions to the front office. Like most things, however, all that has changed.(Continue Reading)
On Sports / NFL Free Agency
Pro Football Enters a New Era: What Agents Should Know
By Steve Baker Esq., Agent & Manager – October 1993
Change has been everywhere in 1993-President Clinton ushered in the first baby-boomer Presidency. Sam Malone announced last call on “Cheers” and Nolan Ryan pitched his last 100 mph fastball Football was also going through its own growing pains. The National Football league (NFL) accepted a concept that had long ago become the standard in other major sports: unrestricted free agency. And, as with all major changes, it has engendered considerable debate.(Continue Reading)