Sparky Anderson
Sparky Anderson
George Lee "Sparky" Andersonwas a Major League Baseball player and manager. He managed the National League's Cincinnati Reds to the 1975 and 1976 championships, then added a third title in 1984 with the Detroit Tigers of the American League. He was the first manager to win the World Series in both leagues. His 2,194 career wins are the sixth most for a manager in Major League history. He was named American League Manager of the Year in 1984 and 1987...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth22 February 1934
CountryUnited States of America
I've changed my mind about it (DH) - instead of being bad, it stinks.
Baseball is a simple game. If you have good players and if you keep them in the right frame of mind then the manager is a success.
Good seasons start with good beginnings.
If a team is in a positive frame of mind, it will have a good attitude. If it has a good attitude, it will make a commitment to playing the game right. If it plays the game right, it will win-unless, of course, it doesn't have enough talent to win, and no manager can make goose-liver pate out of goose feathers, so why worry?
Our pitching could be better than I think it will be.
I managed 26 years and found out when I retired I didn't own the game. I thought I owned it when I was managing all those years. You can climb to the top of the mountain, get down on your knees and kiss the ground, because you'll never own that mountain. That mountain is only owned by one single person, and he'll never give it up. That's the way baseball is.
Players have two things to do. Play and keep their mouths shut.
My idea of managing is giving the ball to Tom Seaver and sitting down and watching him work.
Casey (Stengel) knew his baseball. He only made it look like he was fooling around. He knew every move that was ever invented and some that we haven't even caught on to yet.
Pete Rose is baseball.
Managing is not running, hitting, or stealing. Managing is getting your players to put out one hundred percent year after year.
You can be whoever you want to be, you just have to want it bad enough.
The great thing about baseball is when you're done, you'll only tell your grandchildren the good things. If they ask me about 1989, I'll tell them I had amnesia.
The day I got a hit off (Sandy) Koufax was when he knew it was all over.