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Article: Dusty Baker's off-base remarks.
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- Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
- Article date:
- July 10, 2003
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The following editorial appeared in the Chicago Tribune on Friday, July 11:
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A major sports figure spouts some amazingly stereotypical racial views to reporters. What happens next?
In the case of Chicago Cubs manager Dusty Baker, not much, other than verbal admonishments from some astonished critics.
This has raised a peculiar issue of fairness, considering that similar foot-in-mouth remarks about race brought an end to the careers of Al Campanis and Jimmy "the Greek" Snyder in the 1980s. Is Baker getting a pass because, unlike Campanis and Snyder, he's black?
Yes, says at least one prominent authority: Dusty Baker ...