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.
Famous quotes containing the words dusty and/or baker:
“Worn down by the hoofs of millions of half-wild Texas cattle driven along it to the railheads in Kansas, the trail was a bare, brown, dusty strip hundreds of miles long, lined with the bleaching bones of longhorns and cow ponies. Here and there a broken-down chuck wagon or a small mound marking the grave of some cowhand buried by his partners “on the lone prairie” gave evidence to the hardships of the journey.”
—For the State of Kansas, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three major categories—those that don’t work, those that break down and those that get lost.”
—Russell Baker (b. 1925)