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. “Oh, ...

It has been 40 years since Johnny Bench was declared the best ever at his position by Cincinnati Reds manager Sparky Anderson. As the Big Red Machine prepared to face the New York Yankees in the 1976 ...

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. By the time he was done, ...

When the Reds reach 100 games every July – they're 51-49 after five straight losses – it reminds me of how the Big Red Machine dominated the National League for a decade. Most baseball fans remember ...

Sparky Anderson Dead read the headlines this morning. The baseball world has lost one of it's most prized possessions. Sparky Anderson was the prototypical manager for me. He was a no nonsense, hard ...

If any major league team was shrouded by a cloak of mystery as spring training convened in February for the 1970 season, it was the Cincinnati Reds. The Reds had spent the previous three seasons ...

The word has just come that legendary MLB manager Sparky Anderson is reportedly very ill, and has been placed in hospice care at his home in Thousand Oaks, CA. Coming less than two days after the end ...