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Article: The magic of Dusty Baker.(San Francisco Giants manager named best in National League baseball for second time in five years)(Brief Article)
- Article from:
- Ebony
- Article date:
- July 1, 1998
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Dusty Baker has never run from a challenge, and now he's facing one of the biggest of his career -- one that requires all of his experience and know-how, and the clock is running out.
"The San Francisco Giants have been to the World Series, but the team has never won a world championship," Baker says. "I want to be the first man to bring a world tide to this city, and I want to do it in this park before we move to the team's new Pacific Bell Park in 2000."
Baker has beaten the odds before, must recently, and dramatically, last year Amid early-season rumors that he was on the verge of being fired, he molded what some considered to be a team less ...