Johnnie B. "Dusty" Baker, Jr. (born June 15, 1949) is an American former player and current manager in Major League Baseball, currently the manager of the Cincinnati Reds. He enjoyed a 19-year career as an outfielder, mostly with the Atlanta Braves and Los Angeles Dodgers. He managed the San Francisco Giants, leading them to the 2002 National League pennant, and the Chicago Cubs before taking his current job with the Reds. Baker is widely credited with having played an integral part in inventing the first ever high five.
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“I think of the nestling fallen into the deep grass,
The turtle gasping in the dusty rubble of the highway,
The paralytic stunned in the tub, and the water rising,—
All things innocent, hapless, forsaken.”
—Theodore Roethke (1908–1963)
“Practically everyone now bemoans Western man’s sense of alienation, lack of community, and inability to find ways of organizing society for human ends. We have reached the end of the road that is built on the set of traits held out for male identity—advance at any cost, pay any price, drive out all competitors, and kill them if necessary.”
—Jean Baker Miller (20th century)