Word: anderson
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...announcers make it sound so intellectual, I wonder if I'm qualified to coach," said Anderson, grinning. He is the most successful manager extant. "They ask Danny Driessen what he was expecting the pitcher to throw...
...burnt-out end of a largely mediocre baseball career twelve years ago, Anderson was working as an auto salesman in Van Nuys. The hustling discomfited him, and when he was invited to manage Rock Hill in the Western Carolinas League, "he accepted," says his wife Carol, "before we'd even looked up Rock Hill...
Rock Hill finished last in the first half of the split season, and Anderson imagined a lifetime among tire kickers on Ventura Boulevard. ("Would you believe that people actually do that? Would you believe they buy new cars because of the way a tire feels against a shoe.") Anderson drove Rock Hill to a pennant in the second half of the summer of'65. With one exception-the 1971 Reds-no team managed by.Sparky Anderson has since finished lower than second place...
...managing is practical, disarming, intense and flexible. "For the Reds," Anderson said, "this is the time to get arms and legs in shape. This club doesn't have to win exhibition games. This is a world-championship club. We know we can win exhibition games." On an open diamond between two Tampa highways, Pete Rose, Bob Bailey and three others batted again and again. Anderson moved pitchers in and out as he would move them in a game. Seven fielders and a catcher played permanent defense...
...This way," Anderson said, "Pete, Bailey and the others get as much hitting in a morning as they would in a week of exhibitions...