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Article: Baker not worth dough New Cubs skipper talks a good game, but it won't matter
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- November 17, 2002
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They're just dotting some I's and crossing the T" in Dusty" on the
official documents so that Johnnie B. Baker can become the 15th man
to manage a game for the Cubs in the last 20 years.
The former San Francisco Giants skipper already is shopping for a
home in Chicago. (If he hasn't found a place yet, may I suggest
something on the, ahem, Gold Coast?)
Baker's agent, Jeff Moorad, has squeezed the Cubs the way a juicer
squeezes a lemon.
Basically, Baker bailed on his World Series club for money,
roughly $14 million to $15 million for four years.
The Cubs are acting as though their manager does anything other
than pencil-in names and watch Sammy Sosa do his occasional home-run
hop and ...