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The Heart of a Giant
When it comes to baseball, Dusty Baker plays to win. He s also living proof that the most important stats aren t measured in hits and runs, but in heart and soul.
April 28, 2021
Without a second opinion, Dusty Baker might never have been the star athlete who morphed into one of baseball’s winningest managers. As a teenager in 1966, a benign heart murmur was misdiagnosed as a significantly more serious condition. He was told to quit all strenuous activities particularly football, which he loved. “They told me I’d never play sports again. I was 16,” Baker says, sitting in the empty tasting room closed due to the pandemic of his West Sacramento winery, Baker Family Wines, in early January. His family had just moved to Carmichael from Riverside after his dad landed a job at McClellan Air Force Base, and he’d already made an impression as a touchdown maker at Del Campo High School in Fair Oaks. But his father, Johnnie B. Baker Sr. (
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If there was any doubt that Fernando Tatis Jr. is the new Face of Major League Baseball, there ought to be less now after the San Diego Padres shortstop boldly resubmitted his application over the weekend.
After a 1-for-4 night in San Diego s 3-2 win over the Los Angeles Dodgers at Dodger Stadium on Thursday, Tatis came alive and went 7-for-15 with five home runs as the Padres won two of the next three games to take the series.
That quintet of long balls featured two each off Cy Young Award winners Clayton Kershaw and Trevor Bauer and averaged a sturdy 411 feet. And inasmuch as anything relating to a 22-year-old with only 158 major league games under his belt can be customary, Tatis indeed celebrated each dinger with his customary aplomb.
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Tigers’ A.J. Hinch going ‘home’ to Houston with new team
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Detroit Tigers manager A.J. Hinch observes the practice session at Comerica Park, Wednesday, March 31, 2021, in Detroit. The Tigers home opener is Thursday against the Cleveland Indians. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)AP
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He’s going back home, but with a new job, a new team and vastly different circumstances.
Some things haven’t changed in the last 531 days: Zack Greinke, who started Game 7 for Hinch in 2019, will be on the mound for the Astros on Monday.
But Hinch will be in the opposite dugout.