Houston Astros manager Dusty Baker was the guest of honor at an NAACP dinner where he...
. As he often does, the Astros manager held court, entertaining the audience with stories from his childhood all the way through his more than 50 years in professional baseball.
Much of the conversation was about Baker's life and little of it centered around the Astros, although the manager lit up when Dixon told him he believes the Astros won the World Series because of how much the players believed in Baker. Here are five insightful stories Baker wove into his conversation at Wednesday night's NAACP dinner ...Baker says his mother Christine was all about love and education, while his father Johnnie was the disciplinarian."I wasn't afraid of any man alive. I wasn't scared of cops. I wasn't scared of anybody, but I was scared of my daddy," Baker said.
"He cut me when I was 8, 9 and 10, and he gave me the nickname 'Hard Head,' because he said I don't learn too quick," Baker said."He said I had a bad attitude, and I'm big now on attitude. He said if I could take that bad attitude and put it in the proper direction, I could be something one day. That's what got me on the right trail."When Baker closed out his 19-year playing career in 1986, he became a stock broker.
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