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Chicago Cubs' Luis Valbuena is greeted at the plate by John Baker (38) after Valbuena's solo home run off Chicago White Sox relief pitcher Scott Downs in the seventh inning of a spring exhibition baseball game Friday, March 21, 2014, in Glendale, Ariz. Earlier Valbuena hit a three-run shot off starting pitcher John Danks in the fourth. (AP Photo/Mark Duncan)

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10ThingstoSeeSports - Iditarod musher John Baker, of Kotzebue, Alaska, comes into the Unalakleet checkpoint at sunrise during the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race on Sunday, March 9, 2014, in Unalakleet, Alaska. (AP Photo/The Anchorage Daily News, Bob Hallinen, File)

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FILE - In this March 15, 2011 file photo, musher John Baker pets his lead dogs Snickers and Velvet after winning the the 2011 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, in Nome, Alaska. Baker holds the record for fastest Iditarod completed, clocking in at the Nome finish line in eight days, 18 hours and 46 minutes. That time was four hours faster than the previous record set nine years earlier by Martin Buser. (AP Photo/The Anchorage Daily News, Bob Hallinen, File)

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Iditarod musher John Baker, from Kotzebue, AK, comes into the Unalakleet checkpoint at sunrise during the 2014 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race on Sunday, March 9, 2014. (AP Photo/The Anchorage Daily News, Bob Hallinen)

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Trix, a team dog for Iditarod musher John Baker, from Kotzebue, AK, keeps an eye on the musher at the Unalakleet checkpoint at sunrise during the 2014 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race on Sunday, March 9, 2014. (AP Photo/The Anchorage Daily News, Bob Hallinen)

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Iditarod musher John Baker, from Kotzebue, AK, comes into the Unalakleet checkpoint at sunrise during the 2014 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race on Sunday, March 9, 2014. (AP Photo/The Anchorage Daily News, Bob Hallinen)

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Iditarod musher John Baker, from Kotzebue, Ak, prepares dog food for his team at the Unalakleet checkpoint at sunrise during the 2014 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race on Sunday, March 9, 2014. (AP Photo/The Anchorage Daily News, Bob Hallinen)

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John Baker comes into the Finger Lake checkpoint during the 2014 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race on Monday, March 3, 2014, near Wasilla, Alaska. (AP Photo/The Anchorage Daily News, Bob Hallinen)

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Chicago Cubs' John Baker slides into second for a double during the fourth inning of an exhibition spring training baseball game against the Milwaukee Brewers Monday, March 3, 2014, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)

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File - In this March 13, 2013 file photo, residents greet Kotzebue musher John Baker as he nears the finish line in the Iditarod Trail race in Nome, Alaska. Warm weather during much of the winter across Alaska nearly prompted officials at the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race to move the start to Fairbanks for the first time in a decade. But temperatures have dropped, and the 42nd running of the race across Alaska will start just as normal this weekend in Anchorage.(AP Photo/Mark Thiessen, File)