The man behind all those unpopular Big Red Machine pitching changes sets the record straight with the untold story 50 years ...

George "Sparky" Anderson got his nickname in the minor leagues because of his spirited play. He made it to the majors for only one season, batting .218 for the Phillies in 1959.

When God made Sparky Anderson, He threw away the mold. Anderson, who passed away on Thursday, was the winningest manager ever to wear a Tigers uniform and the sixth most successful baseball ...

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 ...

Sparky Anderson was so far ahead of his time as manager of Cincinnati’s Big Red Machine in the 1970s that, like most innovators, he ticked people off. Mostly, Anderson ticked off his pitchers.

THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. -- 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 ...

Sparky Anderson was inducted via the Veterans Committee into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2000. His plaque shows him in a Cincinnati Reds cap, acknowledging the club with which he achieved most of ...

Sparky Anderson became one of the most memorable managers in baseball history because he knew how to treat his players right, Pete Rose said Thursday, shortly after learning that the Big Red Machin… ...

ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Bruce Bochy got his 2,195th career win to break a tie with Sparky Anderson for the sixth-most by an MLB manager when the Texas Rangers beat the Houston Astros 1-0 on ...

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 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. He retired a year ...