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- Hobey Baker was the first
- American-born player
- to be elected to the Hockey
- Hall of Fame. Yet he never
- played in the NHL.
-
- Hobey was born in 1892, near Philadelphia,
- Pennsylvania. When he was 11, he went to
- St. PaulΓÇÖs School in Concord, New
- Hampshire. St. PaulΓÇÖs had just adopted a
- new sport from Canada called ice hockey.
-
- Hobey fell in love with the sport. He would
- practice on frozen lakes long after dark to
- learn control of the puck without seeing it.
- His team at St. PaulΓÇÖs often beat teams
- from Harvard and Princeton universities.
-
- Hobey later became captain of the