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Sport in Short: Baseball

THE new owners of the San Francisco Giants named the hitting coach, Dusty Baker, as the manager of the team yesterday, replacing the ousted Roger Craig.

TOM GLAVINE, the only major league pitcher to win 20 games in each of the past two seasons, has agreed a dollars 25m ( pounds 16m) deal that will keep him with the Atlanta Braves for the next four years.

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