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"Legendary baseball player and manager Dusty Baker reflects on his extraordinary career in a memoir filled with powerful stories and invaluable lessons on perseverance, leadership, and living life meaningfully on the field and off. Dusty Baker walked with baseball legends and became one himself. After he signed with the Braves in 1967 at the age of eighteen against his father's wishes, no less than the great Hank Aaron promised to take Baker under his wing. Mentored by Aaron, Orlando Cepeda, and Willie Mays, Baker became a premier hitter, helping take the Dodgers to a World Series victory in 1981. He would bookend this with another championship in 2022, this time as a manager working to guide and redeem a Houston Astros team humbled by a scandal. Respected by generations across the game, Baker has come to embody the spirit of the sport -- and yet, to discuss his baseball career is only to scratch the surface of a remarkable life. Crossroads brings readers into the mind of a true original: a curious, inquisitive thinker whose deep interest in the worlds of music, wine, and business and the simpler joys of life charts a journey of success, struggle, faith, and perseverance. Baker's memoir is filled with hard-earned wisdom and a love for life so plentiful it seems to radiate from every sentence. A true American original, counting among his friends presidents and dignitaries, bluesmen and visionaries, Baker weaves a spell of life at the crossroads, where fate turns on our decisions and unexpected answers seek us out when we least expect it."-- Book jacket flap.