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)
“Give up the belief that mind is, even temporarily, compressed within the skull, and you will quickly become more manly or womanly. You will understand yourself and your Maker better than before.”
—Mary Baker Eddy (1821–1910)