Article: Done with Cubs, Baker heads for home after `very good time'.

Byline: Paul Sullivan

CHICAGO _ Among the items stacked in boxes in Dusty Baker's office Monday was a framed photograph of a water-stained "apparition" of the Virgin Mary that appeared on the wall of a Fullerton Avenue viaduct a few years back.

Scrawled on the wall, next to the apparition, were two words: "Go Cubs."

That small taste of Chicago was but one memory Baker will take home to San Francisco with him as he crawls from the wreckage of a lost Cubs season. The most played-out rumor in Cubs history finally became reality Monday when general manager Jim Hendry announced that Baker's contract as manager would not be renewed.

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