Description: 300 pound Dick "Two Ton" Baker was a giant - literally and figuratively - on the Chicago entertainment scene for nearly four decades. His radio show on WGN went out nationwide over the Mutual network and he later had a very popular children's program on that and other Chicago TV stations.
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