Grand Master Eddie Baker

Founding Brother · Chief Instructor · Veteran

Grand Master Eddie Baker is a founding brother of Baker’s Dojo whose martial arts interest preceded the formal training of his brothers. His record centers on service, competition, instruction and decades of work inside the Baker family institution.

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Earliest Martial Arts Interest

The official Eddie Baker biography identifies Eddie as the first of the Baker brothers to show an interest in karate. Before formal instruction, he read and studied martial arts books obtained through mail order.

Military Service

His formal training was delayed when he entered U.S. military service in June 1965. The verified public record states that he completed three years of honorable service before returning to Chicago. No military branch or unit is asserted here because those details have not been verified for publication.

Formal Training & Competition

Eddie began formal karate study in fall 1968 under his older brothers Otis and Preston Baker. The Baker record states that during his younger years he won awards in both kyu and Black Belt divisions before retiring from competition.

Baker’s Dojo Co-Founder

Eddie participated with his brothers in the work that developed through the Baker martial arts institution and joined Preston and Otis in opening Baker’s Dojo of Karate & Body Building in early 1974 at 1300 South Michigan Avenue in Chicago.

Chief Instructor & Community Teaching

The official biography identifies Eddie as one of Baker’s Dojo’s longtime chief instructors. It also records his instruction at Burnside Baptist Church, extending the family’s martial arts teaching beyond the commercial dojo into community settings.

Founding-Brother Legacy

Eddie’s place in the archive is that of founding brother, veteran, competitor and instructor. His work belongs to the collective Baker legacy that produced Baker’s Dojo and sustained the family teaching institution across generations.