The travails, er, TRAVELS of John Baker

Photo: Martin Bell as Fredrik and Alison Ewing as Desiree. Courtesy of 42nd Street Moon. By the time he wrote A Little Night Music, Stephen...

South City quarterback Elijah Avegalio (left) looks for an opening as the El Camino defense, including Jovaughn William (4), looks to pull h...

El Camino and South City players line up for a second half snap in the Bell Game on Nov. 9, 2019. The Colts beat the Warriors, 39-0 for th...

SSF City Clerk Rosa Govea Acosta (left) swears me in for my first full term as a Trustee for the South San Francisco Unified School Distri...

If history proves a kind judge, the 57th Bell Game on Saturday will not be remembered by HOW it ended, but by WHAT it ended. For the f...

(There are proposals to build housing on a vacant lot down the trail from South San Francisco BART station. The fact that some alternativ...

Spencer Eugenio scores on a five-yard second quarter run for South City High in the Bell Game, on Nov. 4, 2017. For the 14 th straig...

El Camino's Ian Dugas (No. 3, right) runs away on a 60-yard scoring pass in the first quarter of Saturday's 55th Bell Game at Sout...

In clockwise order: My father, grandfather, me and my son. San Diego, 2008. In honor of my father, Robert M. Baker Jr., who die...

South City quarterback Kolson Pua rolls out on a six-yard run in the second quarter of the Bell Game, on Saturday, Nov. 14, 2015. Photo by...

Ten years ago tonight, the National Weather Service issued a dire warning : a major hurricane was bearing down on New Orleans and " de...