SCOTT CITY
There’s something drivers in small towns like Scott City do, Neil Baker says, that city drivers don’t.
“Driving down the road, we just automatically wave at people,” Baker said. “I catch myself doing that even in Wichita, putting two fingers up to wave. It just comes with the territory.”
Ron Baker, Neil’s son and Wichita State’s fantastic senior guard, still carries around small-town friendliness. Baker drives a Ford F-150 truck, played three sports in high school and is forever proud of the one stop light in his hometown.
He went to high school in Scott City, on K-96 smack dab between Leoti and Dighton, after spending his first 10 years in Utica, which makes Scott City look like Philadelphia.