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LOVERRO: Nationals up for a bigger slice of the Dusty Baker legacy

ANALYSIS/OPINION

Dusty Baker is a baseball lifer — nearly 50 years in the game, as a player and manager.

When you spend that much time in the game, you’re going to be a traveling man, wearing a lot of uniforms along the way. Some, though, will mean more than others.

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Some uniforms become your identity.

This weekend, the Los Angeles Dodgers were in town for a three-game series with the Washington Nationals. Baker wears a Nationals uniform, but the Dodger blue across the field has special meaning to him.