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Article: Baker: Cubs Can End Losing History
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- November 20, 2002
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CHICAGO (AP) _ More than four decades before 53-year-old Dusty Baker
was even born, the Chicago Cubs won a World Series. Many long and
cold winters have since passed and they've never repeated.
"I didn't know it was 94 years, I'm finding out all those numbers
once I get here," Baker said Tuesday as he pulled a Cubs cap on his
head and took over as manager.
Baker has a four-year contract worth about $15 million and accompanying
high expectations, less than a month after taking the San Francisco
Giants to the World Series.
"When I think about it, why not me, why not us?" Baker said of his
chances for ending the Cubs' long history of ...