A truly great pioneer in the industry. Home consoles might not be here without him. It wasn't as simple as, "Someone else would have done it if he didn't". I read that the he shopped around the Magnavox Odyssey for years to different companies, only to be rejected over and over again because no one took the idea seriously. IIRC here, I believe I read he started shopping it around in 1968, but it didn't get released by Magnovox until 1972.
R.I.P. Mr. Baer.