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Though newspapers reported that Baker had died as a result of engine failure, unsubstantiated rumors began to circulate that his death was not accidental.

Those who knew him were aware of his reluctance to return to civilian life and his feelings over the loss of Scott.

He could have returned to America and played professional sport, where he could have earned far more money than from a job in finance, but his upbringing made that impossible for him.

A career in business held no appeal ; during a weekend vacation with a fellow Princeton graduate Baker revealed that he felt his life was over, and he would never again experience the thrills of football or hockey.

In 1966 author John D. Davies published a biography of Baker, where he noted a relative of Baker's could not see a future for him in the post-war world.

However Davies refused to elaborate on what he called the " suicide theory of enigmatic death ," as he feared that " some of the old guard would be furious if they thought I was trying to prove it.