Dusty Baker’s storytelling ability is immense. Wednesday, the Washington Nationals manager was asked a simple question: “What was your reaction to being traded to the Dodgers?” His answer, more than 40 years after the transaction, is as follows:
“What was my reaction? Man, that’s what I wanted. Cause I didn’t like losing. They had traded Hank Aaron, that winter of ‘75. I didn’t know the business end of baseball at that time. They traded all of us at the same time, and then sold the club to Ted Turner. [The Braves] traded Ralph Garr to the White Sox, traded me to the Dodgers, traded Darrell Evans and Marty Perez to the Giants.