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Article: Money only Baker breaker If Cubs' price is right, Wrigley could be Dusty's spring field
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- November 5, 2002
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This much is known: The man feels your love. From the moment Dusty
Baker landed at O'Hare last weekend, he was mobbed by Cubs fans who
view him as the faith healer and mojo man of a 95-year hex.
Everywhere I go, people are yelling, Please come to the Cubs, Dusty.
Please come,'" he volunteered during his Saturday visit to Notre Dame
Stadium. It's music to my ears."
On the grandest scale, though, Baker equates love with the amount
of money he is paid. Which is why those fuddy-duddys at Tribune Co.,
if they are truly serious about hiring the franchise's first marquee
manager since (assuming this even applies) Leo Durocher, better be
ready to shower him with at least $12 million of love as ...