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Article: A loss Cubs' Baker can handle Skipper upbeat about '04 after McKeon wins Manager of Year award
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- Chicago Sun-Times
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- November 13, 2003
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In Dusty Baker's opinion, the best man won the National League
Manager of the Year award.
I'll have plenty more opportunities," the Cubs manager said
Wednesday after finishing second to the Florida Marlins' Jack McKeon
in voting by the Baseball Writers Association of America. I look at
it as if everything is still ahead. I have nothing to be sad about.
I heard [Syracuse basketball coach] Jim Boeheim say the other day
it took him 27 years to win a national championship. And how long has
Jack been in baseball?"
McKeon, 72, actually won his second Manager of the Year award,
getting 19 of 32 first-place votes and 116 points overall. He also
won the honor in 1999 with the Cincinnati Reds.
But he ...