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HOUSTON Dusty Baker, then manager of the San Francisco Giants, had just left the stadium after a crushing loss to the Anaheim Angels in Game 7 of the 2002 World Series when he met up with his father.
Baker, as the second oldest manager to appear in the World Series, deserves a ton of credit for arriving in Houston last season during the pandemic and navigating the controversy of the sign-stealing scandal of the team’s past to get the Astros to the ALCS last year.
The Astros manager still has never won a World Series as a skipper. Whatever happens vs. the Braves, his story is about more than the one thing it s missing.
This is Dusty Baker's second trip to the Series as a manager. As a player, he went three times with the Dodgers, winning it all as a big-hitting left fielder in 1981. In an illustrious career as a star player and skipper spanning more than 50 years, winning a World Series as a manager is virtually the only box left open for Baker.