In another two plus weeks, it will have been a full eleven years since the Cincinnati Reds went on a limb and hired Dusty Baker, the former long-time big leaguer and manager of the San Francisco Giants through most of the peak Barry Bonds years. As the New York Times noted at the time, it was the first time the Reds had gone outside their own organization to hire a manager in some 18 years - dating back to the hire of Lou Piniella, who obviously had himself quite the year in 1990.
Cincinnati Reds links: Finding the team’s next manager
