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Dusty Baker Net Worth
Johnnie B. Baker's Net Worth as of 2024
$20 Million
Born on 15 June 1949, Johnnie B. “Dusty” Baker Jr. is a retired Major League Baseball (MLB) player and current manager in the MLB. He spent 19 years in the MLB playing with the Atlanta Braves, Los Angeles Dodgers, San Francisco Giants, and the Oakland Athletics. His playing career began in 1968 and ended in 1986, after which he started a coaching career.
Have you ever wondered how much Dusty Baker is worth, as of late 2016? According to authoritative sources, Baker’s net worth is estimated to be around $20 million, earned largely during his successful career as a player and a manager in the MLB.
Dusty Baker Net Worth $20 Million
Baker was born and raised in Riverside, California USA; he earned the nickname “Dusty” as a child, when he was frequently found eating dirt. Baker was the oldest of his four siblings, and therefore often found himself trying to take care of them all. Their father heavily encouraged the children to get involved in sports, and even served as a local Little League coach himself.
During his junior year, Baker’s family moved to Carmichea, where he attended Del Campo High School, and in which he and his siblings were the only black students. Despite excelling at every sport he tried, Baker faced racism everywhere. Still he powered through and impressed scouts from all across the country.
Baker planned on going to college on an athletic scholarship, but life had other plans for him. In June of 1967, just after he had matriculated from high school, the Atlanta Braves drafted him with their 26th pick. He decided to go with the Braves, and was sent to Austin, Texas to play for their minor league team. The next year he was on the Braves MLB team playing as an outfielder.
Baker found some success in the league, despite the chains of racism trying to hold him back. In 1976 he was signed by the Dodgers, and went on to win three League Championships with them (in 1977, 1978, and 1981), and he was also with the team during their World Series win in 1981. He also played on the National League All-Star team in 1981 and 1982, and all of these accomplishments strengthened his prowess as a baseball player and helped to further increase his net worth.
All in all, Baker spent eight seasons with the Atlanta Braves and eight seasons with the Los Angeles Dodgers. He also spent a year on the San Francisco Giants (in 1984), and two years with the Oakland Athletics (1985 and 1986). At the end of his career, Baker had scored 242 home runs, batted in 1,013 runs, and had a .278 batting average. In 1986, Baker ended his career as a player in the MLB.
He wasn’t done however, and returned two years later as a first base coach for the San Francisco Giants, and in 1993 he became their manager. Baker found enormous success as a manger, winning the NL Manager of the Year award during his very first season. He led the team to division titles in 1997 and 2000, as well as winning himself two more Manager of the Year awards. He also led the Giants to the 2002 World Series, but unfortunately they lost.
He subsequently managed various other teams through the years, including the Chicago Cubs, Cincinnati Reds and Washington Nationals; having a successful managerial career as well as a successful career as a player is rare, yet Baker has managed both, with both contributing significantly to his high net worth.
Regarding his personal life, he has been married to Melissa since 1994, and they have two children together. When he’s not busy managing the Nationals, Baker spends his time with a non-profit organization, Positive Coaching Alliance, which is focused on giving student athletes a positive, character-building environment. Dusty is also a member of the National Advisory Board for the group.
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Ben Stein Net Worth
Benjamin Jeremy Stein is an American lawyer, speechwriter, actor, writer and commentator on economic and political issues, but he is also known for participating in many other activities. For example, Ben Stein has even tried himself as a game show host. This famous person in American economics and politics was born on November 25 in 1944 in Washington, D.C., United States during World War II. He attended Columbia College and later Yale Law School. After graduation Ben Stein started to write columns and articles for different US magazines such as Newsmax, Los Angeles Magazine, Penthouse, The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s Magazine, The American Spectator and even for The New York Times.
Ben Stein Net Worth $20 Million
In his writings Stein usually speaks about the economic situation and political issues, and even gives financial advices to individual investors. However, in the mid-60s he also got the job of a poverty lawyer and later continued as a lawyer for the Federal Trade Comission. After few years of hard work, Ben Stein decided to try himself in acting too, but before starting to get roles he became a Hollywood consultant. Stein got his first comedy role and had to play a boring and monotonous economics teacher in the movie called Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, which was released in 1986. As an actor Ben Stein has since appeared in many other movies, such as The Mask, No Intelligence Allowed, Ghostbusters, Ghostbusters II, The Emperor’s New School, Full House, Casper: A Spirited Beginning, The O’Reilly Factor, Maried… with Children, Duckman, The Emperor’s New Schol, Earthworm Jim, Casper Meets Wendy, Family Guy and Richie Rich.
The famous actor and commentator is also recognized thanks to the Comedy Central channel where he was the main face of the show called “Win Ben Stein’s Money” for which he has even received an Emmy award. Ben Stein was earning $5,000 per episode, but money that contestants won was subtracted from actor’s salary. However, these earnings are just nothing if we compare them with Stein’s net worth, which reached $20 million in 2012.
Ben Stein is well known thanks to his ability to harmonize all his activities and show himself as a talented person in every job he does. But maybe one of his most successful, but not so well-known activities is writing speeches for American presidents. Ben Stein was a speechwriter for Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. Until now Ben Stein has published 15 books, the first written together with Herbert Stein and released in 1978. In 2012 his last book appeared in stores – “How To Really Ruin Your Financial Life and Portfolio”.
Nowadays Ben Stein lives with his wife Alexandra Denman in Beverly Hills and Malibu, California. The couple married in 1968 and divorced after 6 years, but in 1977 they got back together again. With his wife Ben Stein adopted their son Tom in 1987. As well as his property in Beverly Hills, Ben Stein also owns a summer home in Sandpoint, Idaho and an apartment in the Watergate complex in Washingtton, D.C., which was inherited from his parents.
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Mikey Teutul Net Worth
Michael Joseph was born 26 November 1978, in Montgomery, New York State USA, and widely known as Mikey Teutul, is a reality television personality, the youngest son of Orange County Choppers founder Paul Teutul, Sr. Mikey began his working life at 14, in the family business.
So just how rich is Mikey Teutul, as of late 2017? Authoritative sources estimate that Mikey has a net worth of over $3 million dollars, largely earned by working at his father’s and older brother Paul Jr,’s company Orange County Choppers (OCC), and Orange County Iron Works, and through his TV appearances.
Mikey Teutul Net Worth $3 Million
Little is known of Mikey’s early life or education – it seems to have always revolved around the family business. Helping out his family in his teens, theoretically he worked as Assistant General Manager. but his main duties were to answer ‘phones, and clear-up and take out the trash. He was on rare occasions given the chance to build bikes, until he was competent to build his own. He also attended events for promoting OCC.
In 2002, the family was invited to take part in a reality show, Discovery Channel’s “American Chopper”, and subsequently “American Chopper: Senior vs. Junior”, in the course of which the youngest son was thrown out of the business – the middle son is Daniel, and younger sister Cristin. The reason for Mikey’s exclusion was that Mikey tried to be a mediator between his father and his brother, but his father seemed to be offended that his younger son did not take his side, and so threw him out of the business. During the filming of the show, Mikey was somethoing of a comedy relief to his father’s workers, and that comedy streak helped gain him popularity in TV shows. Mikey then joined his brother’s post-OCC venture, -Paul Jr Designs – along with most of their father’s employees; obviously the work atmosphere with Paul Teutul, Sr. was not a particularly happy one. Mikey’s eldest brother Paul Jr. was the former chief fabricator of OCC.
So actually the main source of Mikey Teutul’s wealth is not his father’s business, but the shows he eventually took part in. These have included ‘The Late Show with David Letterman”, “Late Night with Conan O’Brien”, and also “The Tonight Show” with Jay Leno. The shows became very popular and Mikey’s appearances earned him a significant amount of money. To say the least, the family drama did not go without consequences – according to rumours, Mikey Teutul was suffering from an addiction problem, and consequently admitted himself to rehab, and managed to overcome the bad habits which were apparently hindering his progress in life, obviously including business.
In his life away from the businesses already referred to and the limelight of TV, Michael loves to paint, and is apparently respected for his productions, as he opened “The Wolfgang Gallery” gallery in Montgomery, New York, where he has sold or auctioned his paintings, adding somewhat to is net worth, although rumours suggest that the gallery may now be closed. Most recently, Mikey is now trying to enter the market under the moniker LLC FarQueue Products with his line of gourmet pasta sauces. Good luck, Mikey!
In his less-than-private personal life, Mikey is apparently still single – there aren’t even any rumours of romantic liaisons.
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