I had one of those moments today when Cowherd was talking about Sparky Anderson and trying to ... “My bedroom walls were plastered with posters of Bench, Rose, Morgan and Cocepcion,” Howson ...

[photogallerylink id=40366 align=left]Hall of Fame baseball manager Sparky Anderson, who led the Detroit Tigers to their 1984 championship, has died at age 76. Family ...

Sparky Anderson (center) speaks with station manager Arthur Carlson (Gordon Jump, right) while program director Andy Travis looks on. This week 41 years ago: Beloved Cincinnati Reds manager Sparky ...

Thirty years ago this summer, Sparky Anderson spent his only season as a major league baseball player as a second baseman with the Philadelphia Phillies. His one statistical line in the player ...

Anyway, Sparky Anderson was in town with the Detroit Tigers. I asked him about the firing, and he shook his head. The Angels, he said, would never have consistent success until they had stability.

George “Sparky” Anderson, baseball’s first manager to lead teams from both the National and American leagues to World Series titles, died Thursday. He was 76. Anderson died at his home in ...

Reds fans were taken aback when Sparky Anderson showed up in Cincinnati for his first day as a big league manager, an unknown taking over baseball's first professional team. Sparky who?

Sparky. It was the nickname George Anderson was given as a minor league baseball player during the 1950s, presumably because he was such a “spark plug.” It was a great nickname, one he fully ...

Clark’s secret war? He wasn’t about to call George Anderson by his universally-known nickname. “I refuse,” Clark once said, “to call a grown man Sparky.” Maybe Clark should have hung ...

Anderson had a 2,194-1,834 record and three World Series titles, two with Cincinnati from 1970-78 and another with Detroit from 1979-95. “I was lucky enough to get to know Sparky.

Yet it was a risk Detroit Tigers manager Sparky Anderson would take again. Anderson was placed on an unpaid leave of absence Feb. 16 after refusing to manage replacement players during spring ...

[photogallerylink id=40366 align=left]Detroit Tigers fans were recalling favorite moments and discussing ways to honor former manager Sparky Anderson who died ...