I think you can send the ball and the players positive or negative vibes.

You can see when a guy is sailing along and all of a sudden you get a bad feeling of what's about to happen. Or I'll have the sense that a guy's going to hit a home run and I'll put him up there, even if it doesn't seem to make any sense.

Hank Aaron told me that you'll never be a good ball player until you learn to trust your feelings and your instincts about what's coming, what's going to happen, or who to send up in a certain situation.

It's a feeling that comes to you; I can't describe it really. It's just something that God gave us, I think. People talk about their gut instinct or gut feeling. But I think it's your spirit.

We all have it. You've just got to learn to trust it. I don't know where it is. It's somewhere down in there that you can't put your hand it. Doctors can't operate on it. It's an unknown entity that occupies the body but is not an organ.

I'll see a hitter who'll take a pitch and then swing the bat after the pitch is through because he knows he's second-guessed himself, the feeling was telling him, "Man, this guy's going to throw me a fastball inside," or, "Man, this guy's going to throw me a curveball."

A lot of great hitters get that feeling and trust their instincts to the point of almost knowing what pitch is coming all the time. That feeling stayed with Hank Aaron maybe 15 years. Guys like Duke Snider, Willie Mays, Ted Williams, and Stan Musial—granted, they were blessed with a lot of ability—they had that feeling of trust longer than the average person does.

Dusty Baker is the manager of the San Francisco Giants.