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Article: Cubs finally manage to get Dusty Patience pays off as Baker OKs 4-year deal
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- November 16, 2002
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The Cubs always have tried to buy a tattered piece of the World
Series by occasionally bringing in players who have been there and
plugging them into their system.
It hasn't worked.
So now they have decided to instill a manager who still has the
afterglow of being in the championship just weeks ago. When former
San Francisco manager Dusty Baker agreed Friday to a four-year deal
that officials said was between $14 million and $15 million, he
stayed the second-highest-paid manager in baseball after the New York
Yankees' Joe Torre ($6 million a year) and immediately shouldered the
burden of relieving the Cubs of their World Series jinx.
"The main thing is to get rid of the stigma that the Cubs ...