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<\/p>\n

Dusty Baker is retired, ostensibly, but there\u2019s always something he\u2019s doing. And on a hot day last week, what he was doing was picking plums.<\/p>\n

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A Del Campo High School graduate, Baker moved to Sacramento as a teenager and now lives on roughly four acres in Granite Bay. He has the eighth-most wins of any manager in Major League Baseball history, is a likely Hall of Fame selection this fall and has a new memoir out Tuesday, \u201cCrossroads,\u201d co-written with Steve Kettmann.<\/p>\n

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In back of his almost 9,000-square-foot home that he shares with his wife Melissa Baker, there\u2019s a private vineyard, a batting cage with seats from different MLB ballparks and a tree that his daughter got married under. Then there are three types of plum trees.<\/p>\n

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The plums, like so much in Baker\u2019s life, have come in abundantly. He tries to keep up on picking them so they don\u2019t fall to the ground and get eaten by his German shorthaired pointers, Gracie and Riley. The fruit upsets their digestive systems. Baker, who is unfailingly kind, also enjoys giving the plums away.<\/p>\n

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Although Baker could pay someone to pick the plums, he uses a fruit picker on a pole to do it himself, even if it makes his wife worry. \u201cShe brings me water and tells me, \u2018Oh, honey, you\u2019re doing too much,\u2019\u201d Baker said. \u201cBut that\u2019s part of my youth.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Baker, 76, last managed in the big leagues in 2023 and still looks fit enough to keep doing it if he wished. Instead, he\u2019s turned his energy to other pursuits, including sharing his unique life story that includes old friends from the Sacramento area who he\u2019s never forgotten.<\/p>\n

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\u2018Looking for a friend\u2019<\/h2>\n

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It was the first day of school in 1965 when Baker spotted someone looking at him.<\/p>\n

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The Baker family had moved recently from Riverside in Southern California to Carmichael so that Baker\u2019s father could work at McClellan Air Force Base. At Del Campo, Baker and his siblings would be among the only African American students. Baker spotted Dennis Kludt, who had just transferred from Grant High School in Del Paso Heights, where he\u2019d been one of the few white students.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI\u2019m like, \u2018Hey man, you looking for trouble?\u2019\u201d Baker said. \u201cHe goes, \u2018No man, I\u2019m looking for a friend.\u2019 I said, \u2018Man, me too.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

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Kludt, who went to six high schools altogether, was in the midst of turbulence. His mom had died and, after clashing with his stepmother, he was living with his sister. Kludt spent a lot of time with the Baker family, who treated him like a son. And he got to know Baker and his trademark geniality that was evident even during his boyhood.<\/p>\n

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\u201cHe was good to everybody,\u201d Kludt said. \u201cHe had that personality back then where can get along with pretty much anybody.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Kludt, now a Roseville resident, has been a long-term friend of Baker, serving as contractor when Baker built his Granite Bay home around 20 years ago.<\/p>\n

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There were other people, too, who came into Baker\u2019s life in those years and have never left. These include Gary Woodrell, who went with Baker to the 1967 Monterey International Pop Festival where Jimi Hendrix famously lit his guitar on fire. In high school, Woodrell said he always saw Baker be gracious and open with people, which he credited to the influence of Baker\u2019s parents.<\/p>\n

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\u201cHe\u2019s a genuine person,\u201d Woodrell said. \u201cI can\u2019t think of too many people quite as wholesome as he is.\u201d<\/p>\n

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At Del Campo, Baker played on the baseball, basketball, football and track teams. Basketball might have been his favorite sport. In a questionnaire he filled out after being drafted by the Atlanta Braves, Baker noted that a favorite sports memory was scoring 37 points in a victory over Bella Vista. In a room at his house, Baker keeps a framed team photo of the 1967 Del Campo boy\u2019s varsity basketball team.<\/p>\n

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All the same, Baker\u2019s baseball abilities were evident even in his early years. Jerry Royster, who is three years younger than Baker and eventually played 16 seasons in the majors himself, used to see Baker play when he had a game close to his family\u2019s home in Sacramento. \u201cI just remember Dusty always being the best,\u201d Royster said. \u201cA lot of us, we tried to pattern ourselves after Dusty.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Baker was part of a significant number of future major-leaguers who played prep baseball in the Sacramento area in the 1960s or \u201970s.<\/p>\n

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These included men who Baker got to know later such as 1964 Johnson High graduate Ken Forsch, who went on to pitch for the Houston Astros. Others were Baker\u2019s friends as teens, such as Leron Lee, who starred at Grant and was a first-round draft pick of the St. Louis Cardinals in 1966.<\/p>\n

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At the center of everything has been Baker.<\/p>\n

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\u201cDusty knows every single guy from Sacramento and he remembers them and he knows where they\u2019re from, where they went to school,\u201d Lee said.<\/p>\n

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Not spoiled by fame<\/h2>\n

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Baker debuted with the Braves in September 1968 and had a 19-year playing career before retiring in 1986. He was a consistently good player who made two All-Star teams, won a Gold Glove and finished fourth in National League MVP voting in 1980.<\/p>\n

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He also had proximity to baseball legends and great moments from the game\u2019s history. Baker was on-deck for the Braves when teammate Hank Aaron hit his 715th home run in 1974, passing Babe Ruth\u2019s career record. Another Sacramento prep product, Rowland Office, replaced Aaron in the lineup later that night, said Royster, who was in the opposing dugout for the Los Angeles Dodgers.<\/p>\n

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Royster and Baker were part of a trade in 1975 that sent Baker to the Dodgers. In Los Angeles, Baker is credited with his Dodgers teammate Glenn Burke for inventing the high-five. \u201cFor us at the time, it was just about living that moment,\u201d Baker writes in \u201cCrossroads.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Early in his career, Baker also got to know Negro Leagues legend Satchel Paige, who the Braves signed as a special adviser in 1968 so he could fulfill his requirements for a major league pension. Paige, known for his tall tales, would crack up other members of the organization.<\/p>\n

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\u201cHank used to just laugh at him,\u201d Baker said. \u201cHe said, \u2018Satch, quit lying.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

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Baker added about Paige, \u201cLying or not, he was fun. He made it fun.\u201d<\/p>\n

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In Los Angeles, Baker got to know Michael Zagaris, a longtime music and sports photographer who, in more recent times, traveled to Granite Bay to take the cover photo for Baker\u2019s memoir. Like Baker, Zagaris has had an unusual closeness to major historical events. He worked on Robert F. Kennedy\u2019s 1968 presidential campaign and was present the night of his assassination.<\/p>\n

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Baker and Zagaris quickly found common ground.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWith us it wasn\u2019t just music, it wasn\u2019t just sports, it was also people,\u201d Zagaris said. \u201cHe\u2019s a people person. John Madden was like that.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Those close to Baker tell stories of times he quietly made a difference in their lives.<\/p>\n

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At Kyles Temple African Methodist Episcopal Church in Oak Park, which was the church Royster\u2019s mother attended, Baker donated a significant sum to build the church a kitchen named in her honor.<\/p>\n

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Faith is a driving factor for Baker, who reads devotional scripture each morning. He is Southern Baptist and also attended the AME church with his mother.<\/p>\n

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Baker was motivated to help Royster\u2019s mom\u2019s church because she had been kind to Baker\u2019s mother. Royster, for his part, was surprised by what Baker did for the church. \u201cI didn\u2019t know that he was even doing it until the church told me,\u201d Royster said.<\/p>\n

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Baker has come through for Kludt when life has been at its worst. In 1982 his first wife became ill and died at age 32.<\/p>\n

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Yvonne Kludt\u2019s funeral was set for Sept. 23. The Dodgers, who were in a tight race for the National League West Division title, had an off-day, having played in San Diego on Sept. 22 and with a game scheduled in Los Angeles for Sept. 24. Baker made it to Stockton in time for Yvonne\u2019s funeral. He played the next day, going 1 for 4 with a double.<\/p>\n

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In the early 1990s, Kludt\u2019s 15-year-old son and Baker\u2019s godson, Jon Kludt, was diagnosed with leukemia. He soon went into remission. In March 1994, Baker, in his first managerial gig with the San Francisco Giants, arranged for Jon to come for a week to spring training in Scottsdale, Arizona, where he met then-Giants catcher Kirt Manwaring. Jon had played catcher for his high school baseball team.<\/p>\n

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Months later, just past Jon\u2019s 18th birthday, his leukemia returned. He died two months later. Many years later, Dennis Kludt remembered how good Baker was to his son and the experience he gave him at spring training.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt was a week that he\u2019d never forget,\u201d Kludt said.<\/p>\n

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The stories of what Baker did for Royster\u2019s mom and Kludt\u2019s family don\u2019t appear to be in \u201cCrossroads.\u201d That wouldn\u2019t be a surprise to a former player of his like Manwaring, who regularly saw him do nice things quietly.<\/p>\n

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\u201cHe never wanted attention for any of that stuff,\u201d said Manwaring, who is now 60 and lives in Florida. \u201cThat\u2019s just the type of man he was.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Dusty\u2019s life now<\/h2>\n

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On June 15, Baker\u2019s 77th birthday, he will take part in an event with former Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson at Underground Books in Oak Park. It\u2019s a chance for Baker to promote his book, and a continuation of Baker\u2019s emerging role as elder statesman and goodwill ambassador for baseball.<\/p>\n

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He managed Team Nicaragua in the recent World Baseball Classic in March, after agreeing to a request initially made in jest. In recent weeks, Baker appeared at a news conference where local officials announced a Major League Baseball expansion bid for the Sacramento area.<\/p>\n

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Royster plans to attend the Underground Books event. He also noted what can happen when Baker walks around at baseball\u2019s winter meetings and how he\u2019d react seeing him there. \u201cI\u2019m going up to Dusty, and we\u2019re getting hugs because of what he\u2019s done \u2026 for so many people,\u201d Royster said.<\/p>\n

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As a player, Baker used to talk about how when he hung up his spikes, he wanted to just fish and hunt, favorite pastimes of his over the years, though he no longer hunts. Kludt remembered scoffing at his friend, thinking he was destined for management. He\u2019s pleased that Baker hasn\u2019t slowed down.<\/p>\n

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\u201cRetirement is a funny thing,\u201d Kludt said. \u201cSometimes a man will have his whole life wrapped up in his career and when he retires, he doesn\u2019t usually live too long, because it\u2019s all about the career and that activity and not about other things.\u201d<\/p>\n

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In the Sacramento area, Baker has both a solar business, Baker Energy Team, and his winemaking company, Baker Family Wines, which has a tasting room in West Sacramento. \u201cHe\u2019s got businesses, he\u2019s got his family, he\u2019s got his friends,\u201d Kludt said. \u201cI think he\u2019s really enjoying life right now.\u201d<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Baker said he\u2019s hopeful his memoir might help someone who is going through challenges he\u2019s experienced in life.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Lord, he could have taken me like a dozen times,\u201d Baker said. \u201cMaybe I was supposed to tell my story.\u201d<\/p>\n

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