[6] Michigan quarterback Benny Friedman said of Baer: "Ray was the best college lineman I ever saw...the fastest man on the squad, he was smart, he was quick, he was very aggressive, and he had great desire.

[7] He was selected by the Associated Press (AP) as a first-team All-Big Ten Conference player and a second-team All-American in 1927.

[10] He concluded his college football career playing on the East team in the December 1927 East–West Shrine Game.

[14] His nephew Neal Baer, a Harvard Medical School graduate, produced the first TV series "Law and Order", for which he won an Emmy.

He also worked on the series China Beach, and later produced Law and Order Special Victims Unit.