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Dusty Baker's Life
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Date of Birth
Dusty Baker was born on June 15, 1949 in Riverside, California. -
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Baker's Playing career
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Baker with the Braves
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Baker with the Dodgers
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High five
On this day Dusty Baker and Glenn Burke were said to have participated in the first high five. -
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Baker with the Giants
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Baker with he Althletics
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Planning
Baker started his managerial carreer as the First base coach of the San Fransico Giants in 1988. He planned what his players who got on first base would do so their team would win. -
Monitor
Baker started as a first base coach and monitored the game from his position and gave instructions to the playes so that they can win. -
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Dusty Baker Managerial Career
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Baker with the Giants
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Figurehead
Baker won manager of the year his first year of being a professional head manager of a baseball team. -
Liaison
Wikipedia - "Baker is widely known as a 'player's manager'" That shows that he can easly connect and relate to players. -
Human Relations
He is known as a, "Player's Manager" and can relate to people and make jokes like one he made about his love of toothpicks, "Toothpicks are an excellent source of protein." It shows that he can have fun an realte with people so they can see him as a friend. -
Controlling
Baker put Cubs players with bad on base statistics out first, which is not normal. He took controll and came up with his own plan to make sure his team would win. -
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Baker with the Cubs
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Leader
Baker helped the Cubs get their first divisional title in a decade. -
Staffing
Baker lost Kerry wood to an injury in 2004 so he had to use staffing to find a replacement pitcher to take over for Wood. -
Conceptual
He has differen ideas for batting than other Managers and Coaches, He had players like Corey Patterson, with poor on-base percentages, at the top of the line up so that the bases won't get "clogged" he saw problems that others do not. -
Disseminator
Baker announced to the media that he was leaving the Chicago Cubs. -
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Baker with the Reds
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Leading
Baker became the new manager of the Cincinnati Reds in 2007 and took the leader position of that team. -
Disturbance Handler
Baker made a statement, "black and Hispanic players are better suited to playing in the sun and heat than white players." That caused disturbance and he handled it by saying, "What I meant is that blacks and Latinos take the heat better than most whites, and whites take the cold better than most blacks and Latinos. That's it, pure and simple. Nothing deeper than that." -
Organizing
Baker was hospitalized for a heart problem and so he had to organize things for an intern to manage the Reds untill he got back. -
Tehnical
Baker had 18 years experiance playing the game of baseball on four different teams. Then he was first base coach for the San Fransico Giants for one year, Next he was the Giant's hitting coach for four years before he finally started managering for the whole team. He started in 1993 and is currently managering the Cincinati Reds, his third team.
