 - The Story of the Field Artillery Central Officers Training School".A 1921 article shows that Baer played on the New York Newspaper Golf Club team in an intercity New York-Boston journalists' golf match.Baer began his career in journalism as an artist with the "Philadelphia Public Ledger" and later worked for other papers before working as a sports journalist for the "Washington Times", where he drew cartoons of a "baseball-bodied insect" named "Bugs."