Sparky Anderson

in the baseball world were sad to hear about the loss. Of sparky Anderson I go back to -- mid ninety's and early ninety's with sparky Anderson having managed against him in the American League when he was with the Detroit Tigers and I was with the Texas Rangers and later the Boston Red Sox in. He was one of those guys that befriended everybody but really took the young managers. In the opposing managers. Under his when he was great to everybody in baseball but I can recite a couple of stories. Fond memories about sparky Anderson -- one early in my career in Texas we're playing in Detroit and they had beaten us in the eleventh hour -- meeting the bottom of the ninth with two outs in the big home run and a very close ball game that we thought we had one in. I was pretty dejected. Lose in that game go back to the clubhouse the visiting clubhouse -- old Tiger Stadium and I get a phone call no more than 45 minutes. After the last after that home run beat us. And it was sparky Anderson in the visiting manager's office in. As of sparky so what's going on since Kevin that is one of snow yeah had

League east in 1995 to get a call couple days later. From sparky Anderson to managers called me one with sparky who it was Tony La Russa. And I never forgot that for me either one

does that cal Lutheran. And I was kind of weird as -- sparky Anderson -- the guys that we all knew growing up but -- of the big red machine. That he was our manager and