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  Don Baylor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Donald Edward Baylor (born June 28, 1949) is a Major League Baseball coach and a former player and manager.
He reached the World Series three times in his career, in consecutive years with three different teams—the Red Sox in 1986, the Twins in 1987, and the A's in 1988—and was on the winning side in 1987.
Baylor was a power hitter known for crowding the plate.
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 Don Baylor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Baylor retired with 285 stolen base s, 2135 hits, and 338 home run s.
Baylor Bears News - Topix.net News on the Baylor Bears continually updated from thousands of sources around the net.
Baylor University Chartered in 1845 by the Republic of Texas, Baylor has an enrollment of about 14,000 and is the largest Baptist university in the world.
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 Don Baylor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Baylor retired with 285 stolen bases 2135 hits and 338 home runs.
The Rockies posted their first record (77-67) in 1995 and made the postseason as the team and as a result Baylor won National League Manager of the Year Award.
After a subpar 1998 season Baylor was He became the hitting coach for the Atlanta Braves in 1999 and was hired to the Chicago Cubs in 2000 and managed through 2002.
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 Don Baylor Baseball Stats by Baseball Almanac
Don Baylor was born on Tuesday, June 28, 1949, in Austin, Texas.
Baylor was 21 years old when he broke into the big leagues on September 18, 1970, with the Baltimore Orioles, and his Major League Baseball stats for every season he played, along with his career totals are on this page.
Don Baylor's biographical data, year-by-year hitting stats, fielding stats, pitching stats (where applicable) career totals, uniform numbers, salary data and miscellaneous items-of-interest are presented by Baseball Almanac on this Don Baylor baseball statistics page.
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 KFFL - Don Baylor, MAN, Free Agents
Baylor played for the Yankees at one time and also worked as a hitting coach for Yankees manager Joe Torre with the St.
Baylor served as New York Mets bench coach the past two seasons, and has two managerial stints under his belt, as well as having served as a hitting coach for three other major league clubs.
The AP reports coach Don Baylor (cancer) of the New York Mets disclosed Thursday that he has been diagnosed with cancer in his bone marrow and plans to initiate therapy on Tuesday.
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 Don Baylor | BaseballLibrary.com
After retirement, Baylor worked as a hitting coach for the Brewers and Cardinals until he was named manager of the expansion Colorado Rockies for the 1993 season.
Baylor, whose reputation for honesty convinced Cubs GM Ed Lynch that he was the right man to replace Jim Riggleman, beat out former Cub Billy Williams for the job and promptly announced that star right fielder Sammy Sosa needed to work on his defense.
Baylor's mark is a ML record, but will be matched four times in the National League between 1987 and 1992.
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 Sporting News, The: Patience is a virtue … still - Don Baylor takes over as manager of the Chicago Cubs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Don Baylor could have gone elsewhere to manage--he had his pick of several jobs--so it's obvious he isn't going to Chicago to lose.
Baylor's stature within baseball, reflected by the four-year contract he received from the Cubs, will buy time to renew the effort at establishing the steady success that has been missing on the North Side for three decades.
Baylor, voted the N.L.'s top manager after guiding the Rockies into the playoffs in 1995 but fired by Colorado after the 1998 season, was Cox's hitting coach in '99.
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 IllinoisLeader.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Hearing the words "Don Baylor" in the morning left me with an unsettled feeling in the stomach, like I just got a letter from the IRS or, say, had someone stomping on my balls for three baseball seasons.
Then again, Don Baylor is not taking away money that could be spent, say, on a legitimate closer or a left-handed starting pitcher whose last name does not rhyme with asbestos.
Don Baylor is incapable of going to the World Series as a manager, while Dusty Baker is emminently capable.
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 SITT - Don Baylor
One thing Baylor is remembered for was his predilection for getting hit by pitches--he holds the career record, have gained first base by that painful method 267 times.
From his breakthrough 1973 season with Baltimore, through the California years, which began in 1976, and continuing with the Yankee years in the mid-'80s, Don Baylor with a bat in his hands was one of the most feared combatants in the game of baseball.
Don Baylor, a self-described "brown-neck", hails from Austin, Texas where in high school he starred in both baseball and football.
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 Notebook: Ex-Angels player Baylor has divided loyalties - PittsburghLIVE.com
Baylor was the only MVP the Angels have ever had — in 1979, when they made the playoffs for the first time.
Baylor was also a member of the 1982 Angels, who lost to Milwaukee, 3-2, in the ALCS after winning the first two in the best-of-five series.
Baylor was fired as manager of the Chicago Cubs on July 6.
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 Seattle Mariners News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Don Baylor spent the past two seasons with the Mets as their hitting coach.
Baylor, who served as bench coach for the Mets the last two years, previously managed the Rockies (1993-98) and the Cubs (2000-2002), compiling a 627-689 record and earning National League Manager of the Year honors in 1995.
Baylor, 55, is a former outfielder and designated hitter who spent 17-plus seasons in the Major Leagues.
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 Purebaseball News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Baylor enjoyed the ride until mid-1998, when it became painfully obvious that the club's fortunes were in decline.
Baylor was always there to support his offensive players' inflated statistics and quick to criticize his own pitchers for not bucking up.
Baylor was a very aggressive hitter in his day and obviously encouraged his hitters to "expand" the strike zone with runners in scoring position.
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 Boston.com / Sports / Baseball / Mariners hire Don Baylor as hitting coach   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Baylor spent the past two seasons as bench coach for the New York Mets.
"Don has had great success as a player, coach and manager," new Mariners manager Mike Hargrove said in a statement.
Baylor has also served as hitting coach in Atlanta, Milwaukee and St. Louis.
www.boston.com /sports/baseball/articles/2004/11/09/mariners_hire_don_baylor_as_hitting_coach   (191 words)

  
 Ten Reasons to get rid of Don Baylor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Don Baylor never admits to making a mistake, never learns from them, so he repeats them.
Don Baylor apparently has nothing but contempt for other coaches and baseball experts.
Don Baylor is stuck in the American League.
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 Pocono Record Online: Rockies dump Don Baylor after 6-year stint   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
DENVER (AP) — The first casualty of the Rockies' losing season was Don Baylor — the only manager the team has had in its six seasons.
Baylor, 49, led the Rockies to a 440-469 record.
Both Baylor and Bob Gebhard, the general manager since the Rockies inception in 1993, were criticized all year following an eight-game losing streak in early April that dropped the team out of contention.
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 Don't Bury Baylor - Christianity Today Magazine
The recent happenings at Baylor form a complex case study, where some lessons are transferable across Christian higher education and others are unique to the players and situation at hand.
It would certainly be premature to conclude from these recent happenings in Waco that Baylor's attempt to stem the steady march toward secularization has been overcome by the inevitable forces that have pulled other institutions away from their moorings.
Baylor's official statement regarding about the change, and that of the student body president, is available from Baylor University's website.
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 The Seattle Times: Sports: Mariners bring Baylor on board
Don Baylor, the former Chicago Cubs and Colorado Rockies manager, has been named batting coach under new Mariners skipper Mike Hargrove.
Baylor was among the managerial candidates in Houston when the Astros fired Jimy Williams at midseason.
Baylor was the first manager in Rockies history, and he stayed in Denver for six seasons (1993-98).
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 Lookout Landing :: Don Baylor
Following Bryan Price, Don Baylor is stepping down from his position as the hitting instructor for the Mariners to "pursue other opportunities," such as one of the many managerial openings around the league.
Baylor only lasted a year with the M's and under his watch the team struggled at the plate for the second year in a row, finishing at or near the bottom of every major offensive category.
Baylor and Price are just part of the coaching carousel for the M's organization this offseason, as there are now managerial openings in San Antonio and Tacoma, and hitting and pitching coach openings in Seattle.
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 WNDU-TV: Story: Cubs fire manager Don Baylor - July 05, 2002   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
ATLANTA - The Chicago Cubs on Friday made Don Baylor the latest managerial casualty, firing him in the midst of his third season with the club.
Baylor becomes the sixth manager in baseball fired this season.
Baylor, who was signed through the 2003 season, posted a 187-220 with the Cubs.
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 USATODAY.com - Don Baylor has multiple myeloma   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. (AP) — New York Mets coach Don Baylor has been diagnosed with cancer in his bone marrow but hopes the chemotherapy treatments won't cause him to miss any games.
Baylor, 53, will undergo four days of oral and intravenous chemotherapy beginning Monday — when the Mets open the season against Baylor's former team, the Chicago Cubs —; to treat the multiple myeloma.
The cancer was detected as a result of spring training physical last month and an examination determined Baylor had an abnormal monoclonal protein.
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 don baylor milwaukee brewers coach
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 A Cyber Bookie - Mariners tab Don Baylor hitting coach   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Baylor spent the past two seasons as the bench coach for the New York Mets after a two-year stint as manager of the Chicago Cubs.
The 55-year old Baylor was the first manager in the history of the Colorado Rockies, holding that position for six seasons (1993-98) during which he garnered NL 1995 Manager of the Year honors from the BBWAA and The Sporting News.
Baylor has also served as hitting coach with the Atlanta Braves (1999), St. Louis Cardinals (1992) and the Milwaukee Brewers (1989).
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 HoustonChronicle.com - Baseball Notebook: Don Baylor brings rugged style back to game
Baylor didn't defer to anybody, as Mike Piazza did in 2000 when Clemens hit him with a fastball to the helmet at Yankee Stadium in June or after the memorable broken-bat incident at Shea Stadium during the Subway Series.
Baylor always knew which part of the plate he wanted, and he took it by slowly creeping closer and closer as the years passed.
Baylor knows a headhunter when he sees one and Clemens is not one, in his opinion.
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 HickokSports.com - Biography - Don Baylor
An aggressive hitter who became known as a team leader, Baylor was named the AL's most valuable player with the California Angels in 1979, when he led the league with 139 RBI and 120 runs scored.
Baylor entered the major leagues with the Baltimore Orioles in 1970, but appeared in just 9 games in his first two seasons.
Traded by the Red Sox to Minnesota late in the 1987 season, Baylor finished his career with the Oakland Athletics in 1988.
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 The Seattle Times: Sports: Don Baylor hired as M's hitting coach
Baylor, 55, spent the past two seasons as a bench coach for the New York Mets.
"Don has had great success as a player, coach and manager," new Mariners manager Mike Hargrove said in a news release Tuesday.
Baylor has done stints as a hitting coach with Atlanta, Milwaukee and St. Louis.
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 Don Baylor Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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 RotoChamps.com : Hargrove tabs Don Baylor as new hitting coach   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Baylor replaces Paul Molitor, who spent just one season with the Mariners.
"Don has had great success as a player, coach and manager," Hargrove said in a statement.
Baylor was the first manager in Rockies history, and he stayed in Denver for six seasons (1993-9
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