Ex-Cubs managers Dusty Baker, Lou Piniella, Joe Maddon on ‘Contemporary Baseball Era’ Hall of Fame ballot

Only one of them guided the Cubs to a World Series championship, but a trio of recent North Side skippers could find themselves in the Hall of Fame next summer.Three of the team’s last eight managers — Dusty Baker, Lou Piniella and Joe Maddon — are among the eight candidates on the Hall of Fame’s “Contemporary Baseball Era” non-player ballot, and a committee will vote on whether any will be part of next year’s Hall of Fame class, with voting results announced Dec. 6.All three managers were splashy hires made with the intention of breaking the Cubs’ infamously lengthy championship drought dating back to 1908, and though Maddon was the one who got that job done, all three helmed teams that brought playoff baseball to Wrigley Field.Baker came first, hired ahead of a 2003 campaign that saw the Cubs win a division title for the first time since the 1980s. That year’s run ended in the NLCS against the Marlins, the Cubs five outs away from a pennant only for disaster to strike in the now-lege