AP Sports Writer
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.
Johnnie B. Baker Sr. didn’t mince words.
“He goes: ‘Man, after the way (you) lost that one, I don’t know if you’ll ever win another one,” Baker recalled Sunday.
Nineteen years after that conversation and more than a decade since his dad’s passing, Baker finally has a chance to prove wrong the father he loved so dearly.