If anything, the World Series moment brought Darren Baker closer to baseball and his dad. As Dusty picked up jobs across the country, Darren would leave his home in the Sacramento area and join his dad on the road during summer months. Darren's exposure to big league baseball has...
Baseball clubhouses are living, breathing experiments in human behavior, subject to the whims of fickle men, fragile enough to splinter at the first sign of tension. When Baker took over, the Astros were a lit fuse that he helped to snuff out. Over time, the shared experience of being ...
At his high school in Del Campo High School, he played baseball, basketball, track, and also football. He played till Santa Clara University gave him a basketball scholarship. However, even when Baker was not interested in going to school, his father made sure he never allowed him to quit ...
Baker said he feels like he has unfinished business around baseball. “I haven’t made my mind yet on what I’m going to do, but I’m going to go home to talk to my daughter, who thinks she’s my mother, and spend some time with my grandkids and let the Lo...
HOUSTON -- Wearing his 2022 World Series championship ring and his familiar smile, Dusty Baker spoke fondly about his four years in Houston while turning his attention to the next chapter of his remarkable baseball life. At 74 years old, he feels he has
Though most of America is rooting against the Astros, almost all of baseball agrees on its love for Dusty Baker.Tim Warner/Getty Images WITH DUSTY,I learned so much about myself. I was a veteran, frustrated with declining health and playing time. And for the first time, I realized...
Baker has served since 2018 as a special adviser to Giants CEO Larry Baer, working in both the baseball and business operations of the club. He regularly attended son Darren's college games at the University of California in Berkeley.
“Mrs. Baker,” he said, “I will take care of him as if he’s my own son.” Baker is the Forrest Gump of modern baseball—he's been there in uniform for so many other people's iconic events. But the 117th World Series is his moment as much as it belongs to anyone :: Thomas...
To honor the baseball great, Baker dubbed the wine "Hammerin' Hank." They made 70 cases of the 2018 Hammerin' Hank Cabernet, released at $60 per bottle. (The wine is available on the Baker Family Wines website.) Baker took a break from prepping for the upcoming baseball season to sp...
Dusty usually picks up dinner for Darren, but his son still has to do the chores. Dusty Baker, after all, is the son of the late Johnnie B. Baker Sr., a disciplinarian who demanded his son pull his weight around the house. “I said, ‘Hey man, I’m clean,’” Dusty said. “Yo...