Sparky Anderson dead at 76

[SamuelKhan]

Another great has fallen...

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news;_ylt=AkREofBwbCe74v.DIJM7E2ARvLYF?slug=ap-obit-anderson

THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. (AP)—Sparky Anderson, the white-haired Hall of Fame manager who directed Cincinnati’s Big Red Machine to back-to-back World Series championships and won another one in Detroit, died Thursday. He was 76.

Anderson died from complications from dementia, family spokesman Dan Ewald said. A day earlier, Anderson’s family said he had been placed in hospice care.

Anderson was the first manager to win World Series titles in both leagues and the only manager to lead two franchises in career wins.

What managers really talk like:
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[milagros317]

He was a fine baseball manager. Rest In Peace, Sparky Anderson.

 

[venray]

Dementia...not a way I like to see him have gone...

Rest in Peace Sparky..

 

[kwildoctr]

Dementia...not a way I like to see him have gone...

Rest in Peace Sparky..

And that, I think, is the ultimate irony: that a man known as one of the most intelligent men to ever manage in baseball would die from complications of dementia.

RIP, Sparky.

R

 

[desdemona]

He was such an icon here in Cincy.... I grew up watching the Big Red Machine - (Johnny Bench was my favorite). RIP.

 

[ndj101982]

76 seems like a really early age to die in this day and age. I was shocked to hear it.

 

[Bugman]

I was still following baseball when the Big Red Machine won back- to- back World Series titles. R.I.P. Sparky.

 

[leafstk]

He was amazing... I remember all those tight series with the Jays in the 80's. He was always a true class act. RIP Sparky 🙁

 

[love feet]

regrets

 

[Knox The Hatter]

Dementia...not a way I like to see him have gone...

Rest in Peace Sparky..

They made a lot of hay over the years for his one season at short for the Phillies in 1959, in the same way they did over Walter Alston's single at-bat . He became manager of the Cincinnati Reds in 1970, at the spry old age of 35, and led them to a pennant in his first season...and he never stopped talking after that. One of the more charismatic figures in Baseball, he gave the sport a positive face, when it needed one to successfully market it to a new generation that was captivated by the NFL.

His face was as prominent as that of Johnny Bench and Pete Rose and Tony Perez-he was no backseat manager by any means.

I'm sorry to hear of his travails at the end...

 

[paracarl44]

RIP SPARKY.

Another Great Baseball Player that left his mark in the Baseball Record Books.🙁