Among the 1,500+ congratulatory messages for Dusty Baker after winning his first World Series? Barack Obama. A former president made time for Baker, writes jaysonstark. It’s a statement on the place he holds in American culture. More:
There were many more. Without them, without all those other teams that made it to October and came so close, would the Houston portion of his career even have been possible? Baker isn’t so sure it would — because every chapter in life paves the way for the next chapter.But before there were 25 seasons of Dusty Baker, the manager, there were two decades of Dusty Baker, the professional baseball player.
“I think about how my dad taught me to be respectful, because these guys — they ain’t coming to see you if they don’t respect you. You know, the average that comes to the ballpark now, it’s different, because a lot of those players, they don’t want to come to the ballpark anymore. Some of them — they don’t like this modern baseball.”
“I just talked to him a couple of days ago,” Baker said of Garr. “I said, ‘Hey, man, you coming down this year?’ He said, ‘I don’t know.’ And then here he is today. I mean, wow. He was my first roommate . We signed the same day .” It was that time between jobs that allowed him to be there to watch his son, Darren, graduate from college and play in the Cape Cod League. It was why he was able to be there for his family after the deaths of his father and his brother. Those things happened “all in those gaps,” he said, almost as if it was meant to be.
There are life lessons in all of this, not merely baseball lessons. So what, we asked, was the lesson “Probably about perseverance,” he said. “You know, you read about perseverance all the time, and perseverance builds character, and perseverance builds this and that. And it does. But also, I always wondered about the lesson of Hank Aaron.
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