By Paul Hagen Philadelphia Daily News Daily News Sports Writer MANAGING A big league baseball team used to be like being an airplane pilot. Or the captain of a ship. That's why they're still sometimes referred to as skippers. Either way, they yielded pretty much absolute authority. Now the job description is more like fine-tuning a vintage violin. Many fans still yearn for the day when the manager dictated and the players obeyed. Except anyone who tries that approach in the era of the $3 million average salary is doomed to fail. That's why the latest dust-up involving reigning NL MVP Jimmy Rollins put Charlie Manuel in such a ticklish position. Kids learning how to hit used to be told to hold the bat as if it were a bird. Tight enough to keep it from flying away, not so tight as to strangle it. That's the sometimes tenuous...
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