I love that quote! The Philadelphia Flyers need to have that placed on their draft “war room” wall!!

There is a difference in living in the past, vs.. LEARNING FROM IT. And, its just as dumb to change for the sake of change as it is to stay the same for the sake of staying the same. The issue is: WHAT HAS UTILITY..WHAT WORKS AND WHAT DOES NOT, AND WHAT CREATES A BETTER FUTURE AND WHAT DOES NOT.. Those who do not learn from the past or prepare for the future, are respectively- DOOMED TO REPEAT ITS FOIBLES, AND STUCK IN A MOST UNPLEASANT PREDICAMENT GOING FORWARD AND IN THE PRESENT, with generally no backup. As for Anderson, he doesn't know everything, nor everyone. He was a baseball manager, not some ORACLE, some WIZENED SOCIETAL CRITIC.

yeah, and 'Spanky' (I'd call him 'Sparky' but he believed in discipline) would have won A LOT more games, but Tom Monahan, the Tiger's owner, hired Michigan football legend Bo Schembeckler to a ten year contract to be his team president. he got rid of good players (except Whittaker and Trammell) to buy home run hitters (who had FAR MORE STRIKEOUTS THAN HOME RUNS) and RUINED THE TEAM!!! after a few seasons of this nonsense, 'Spanky' said, "You give me pitching, and defense, and SPEED, and I'll show you how this game was meant to be played!" and, by the way, Cincinnati fired 'Spanky' after he had won an average of 96 games a year! go figure.

He talks about replacement players in this interview with Ed Randall from 1995. It should start at the right spot. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/sKein8tlspnNo5c.html

the strike that destroyed the game. they weren't making peanuts in the mid-90s Buddy. you understand that when they did that they absolutely killed Major League baseball it never recovered? players union were a bunch of greedy bastards. millionaires complaining. game never recovered. been steadily declining ever since. yeah what a f****** great move that was 🙄 yeah canceling the world series did wonder for the game. do you know before the players union did that the baseball was probably more popular than ever? the 1991 world series is probably one of the most dramatic world series one of the most viewed world series in history? the game was on a wave popularity and they went on the f****** striking canceled the f****** world series. are you some kind of numbnuts applauding that? theywere f****** millionaires bro.. then Major League baseball completely ignored the steroid usage trying to recover the fans they lost because of player Union f****** greed. you're off your f****** rocker bro destroyed the game of baseball it never f****** recovered. and they weren't making peanuts in 1995 or 1994... I hate Tom glavin to this day because he was a union f*** that led to that strike. are you f****** off your rocker? 🙄 cancel the world series. and you think that that was good? for you some kind of brainwashed Union member? absolutely destroyed the game of baseball never recovered. they should have absolutely brought scabs in and played that 94 world series. you are f****** high bro 🙄

Absolutely it wasn't about $125 K Sparky had plenty of money it was about doing what was right.

​@@patrickgray5633aaah.... actually..... NOBODY likes to give up money! and at that time in history, $125,000 was more than some people would earn in a lifetime.

yeah, recently a Minnesota ballplayer gave up a three year $37 million dollar contract to go for a 10 year $350 million dollar deal. he told the press, "I have to think of my family's future." HIS FAMILY'S FUTURE!!?! our family came over to America on a boat from Sweden four generations ago and as a group we have NEVER as a group total made $37 million since we got here!!! what is his 'family' gunna do with $350 million dollars, BUY A SMALL COUNTRY!!!!!!

@@samuelmoulds1016 It would be nice if once in a while they'd consider that their family's future is paid for at the expense of other family's futures.

@@RoundingThird yeah, this is soooh true! you have insight and wisdom!

@@RoundingThird hey, "@RoundingThird", forgive me for interrupting, and I don't mean to be rude, I was wondering how you got your 'name'!!?! have you heard of Joe Nuxhall, the famous radio announcer of the Cincinnati Redlegs and the youngest player in major league history. after the end of every game, he would say, "And this is the old lefthander, rounding third and headed for home!" just thinkin'.

We're they Racist around them parts back then?

yeah, 'Spanky' (I'd call him 'Sparky' but he believed in discipline) won an average of 96 games a year and Cincy still fired him.

yeah, and you have no idea how great he was! ask me and I'll tell ya.

yeah, I talked to him in the Tiger's dugout in Milwaukee (ask me about it and I'll tell ya the whole story)!

Take away that 8-1 win and the A's outscored CINCY in the other six games combined..wait, you cannot really take away W's of any kind. The object of the series of games is to win, to get the most W's. In 1960, the NY YANKS outscored the PITT PIRATES, 55-27..but were not WS CHAMPS.. In '72, the A's won 4 W's to 3W's..just as PITT won in '60, in SEVEN GAMES.. Run differential only decreases or increases the odds of winning or losing..it does not guarantee either W's OR L's 100 percent, nor does it say who the better team is when run differential IS NOT THE OBJECT of the GAME OR SERIES.. Ifs and buts, candy and nuts..if every day was buts= candy and nuts= everyday would be Christmas.. They are not..

I was 8 in 1976 and loved the Reds and Sparky and at the beginning of this when they said he took over as the manager in 69' at age 35 I couldn't believe it. To this day I would have thought he was around 55 in 1969.

FR …. He was just like My Grandparents and they’ve always looked a now days 70yo lol. They’re super healthy too but they’ve had grey hair as long as I’ve been alive , so since their mid to late 50’s They continued to look until 90 But now after 90 they are showing it 93yo and going They’re Amazing people Not just for being 93. 😁

yeah, at an 'Oldtimers's Game' Mickey Mantle was kidding Sparky about his white hair. Sparky said, "Yeah, 20 years from now sportswriters will say, ''Look at how old Mickey is, and Sparky hasn't aged a day!"

Wish he was still here today. He wouldn’t put up with the B.S. dugout celebrations and showboating crap that runs rampant in modern MLB. Guys who showup their opponents by taunting, pointing and nut grabbing not to mention earrings, tattoos, bad haircuts and beards down to their waists. Sparky’s players looked and behaved like men, he made sure of that!

yeah, I call him 'Spanky', because he believed in discipline!

And Johnny Bench. Bench was very intelligent.

⁠@@jaypee7632 Yup Bench isn’t considered The GOAT C just for His bat or even His Elite of Elite Arm But His lead of a Pitching Staff was 2nd to None . That’s where He really gets put over the Top His Elite Arm, 1 of the best bats ever for a Cather in the 1st 2/3 of His career But then He called and controlled a game better than anyone ever Yogi & Johnny are The GOAT’s Ivan Rodriguez & Yadi Maolina & Buster Posey are right up there , best of their generation and are most definitely deserving to be mentioned with Bench & Yogi Especially Yadi & Posey This is from a Reds Fan FL Yadi is/was a GOAT Thurman Munson Roy Campanella Carlton Fisk was a Bad Man JT Reamulto is really setting the standard Defensively @tm Not quite what these Legends are & were but He’s doing His thing Addison Rutledge looks like He’l maybe be on that list of greats when He’s done But now I’ve got ahead of myself even mentioning these 2 with The Greats. 😁

Gowdy was Red Sox anouncer.

I don't know about Kurt Gowdy, but..Curt Gowdy was disappointed? Why?

@@robertsprouse9282 Gowdy called Red Sox games on radio and TV for years, and it was clearly evident that he was a "homer" for Boston during that '75 series.

@@steveb9151 , next time make it clearer about which comment that you are talking about. GOWDY also commented to SPARKY about the OAKLAND A's and WARNED(why say anything off the record- I assume- about one team to the manager of the other team that they're playing, THAT YOU'RE COVERING?) ANDERSON about HUNTER and the A's pitchers. Its almost as if GOWDY wanted SPARKY to be equipped with enough respect to be, and to have his team be, better mentally prepared for the A's= greater chance to win, perhaps= pulling for CINCY? Now, I really don't think that is what GOWDY was doing because I think he was just making small talk- his "warning" is not something if I was covering the series, that I would've done- but, I can see how folks might construe it as rooting for CINCY.. That is what I thought you meant. I asked WHY? Because I wanted to know what doing play by play(my former profession) for the RED SOX in the 50's and early and mid- 60's had to do with pulling for CINCY, other than not wanting to see any A.L. team other than BOSTON winning a WSERIES. Next time, explain yourself more clearly and I won't get the wrong idea. Got it?

@@robertsprouse9282 Sir, I denoted the precise time of the quote in question: The allusion should've been obvious...but thank you for the lengthy dissertation.

aaah.... actually....it is 'not too shabby! hey, "MaplesyrupPost' , by chance, are you 'Cajun'!!?! do you live in the great state of Maine!!?! are you a 'Maniac' (people from Maine would know what I mean)!

@@samuelmoulds1016 I've always been a maniac ...wish I were a mechanic sometimes 😄

What the difference.

​@@patrickfurlong9169, the, practically, three- outcomes for a hitter game..that is one of the biggest differences now..creating a game that puts you to sleep= flyout/popup, strikeout, or homerun... Pitchers that cannot figure out how to get hitters out during the third (or rarely= fourth time) they face them, etc.. The 1980's MLB was vastly superior to the 2020's MLB version. That is not living in the past..that is stating a stone cold fact.. Just because a bunch of 2020's pitchers can throw 100 mph, doesn't make up for the fact that they cannot show command and avoid the big homeruns= in the strike zone. They cannot mixup their pitches and pace themselves, and outthink hitters during most of the game.. And, relievers come and go, and rarely establish longterm excellence anymore. Batters have no strikezone discipline, and rarely actually setup pitchers. I can go on and on.. Facts are why..

As a Reds fan growing up my future Brother-In-Law took me to my first Reds game in 1976. One of the best days of.my life. I was blessed to meet the team as well. I was heartbroken when the Reds traded Tony Perez, when Sparky Anderson was fired, and lastly when Pete Rose left for the Phillies. That's when I left baseball. I was happy for Sparky Anderson's success in Detroit because he was a great man. The Reds of 1990 weren't that interesting to me. I guess in retrospect, my enjoyment of the 1990's Braves during the playoffs was childhood nostalgia similar to my love of the Cincinnati Reds.

And did Not sign the greatest hitter in baseball history! who went to philly and helped them become champs.

yeah, you think Dick Wagner is "The All Time Worst General Manager of All Time", you should have seen what Detroit Tigers' president, and retired Michigan football legend Bo Schembeckler did to 'Spanky' (I'd call him 'Sparky' but he believed in discipline) Anderson's Tiger teams!!!! he believed in home run hitters and traded away Tiger talent. the Tigers started losing game after game for YEARS! why!!?! WHY!!?! Anderson said later, "You give me pitching, defense, and speed and I will show you how this game was meant to be played."

yeah, and you shoulda seen Pete Rose play 3rd base in the 1976 World Series!!! whenever Mickey Rivers, the Yankees' lead off batter came to the plate, Rose moved in from his normal 3rd base position and stood 12 from Rivers. Rivers said after the game, that when he came to bat all he could think about was Pete Rose!

yeah, thanks Cincy, for giving us THE BEST MANAGER WE EVER HAD !!!!!

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That’s why Sparky always said - “ You win with good players “.

Yea, my Dad for some reason HATED Sparky and said the same thing when he came to Detroit about inherited a ready made championship team. I remember the Bless You Boys era fondly, Sparky too. RIP Dad and RIP Sparky. And I cannot be a Tigers fan if I don't throw a RIP to Ernie.

So, they would've won, and begun 1984 at 35-5 no matter who the manager was? His past record of one 108 win season, a 70-30 start, two WS TITLES, coming back to back with NO FREE AGENTS.. Several seasons 100 or more wins, one with 99, several division titles, and THREE LEAGUE PENNANTS, none of that separates him from any other manager who would've otherwise managed the TIGERS? None of that previous SPARKY track record led to 104 WINS, and an '84 WS CHAMPIONSHIP, and the A.L. PENNANT? And, when ANDERSON arrived, the TRAMMELL, WHITAKER, PARRISH, GIBSON, MORRIS, PETRY, etc..TIGERS were still very young with MLB experience, right? You do know MILT WILCOX began with CINCY and ANDERSON, right..at 20 years old, only to be sent back to the minors for a few seasons? No.. I will flatly tell you that only a handful of 1970's &'80's managers would've coaxed even one big season out of that TEAM, much less WIN THE WSERIES and take two DIVISION CROWNS AND A LEAGUE PENNANT. What did these so-called "automatics" do during their careers toward winning leagues, or the WSERIES, other than MORRIS AND GIBSON? What? Think again..

Why did the Tigers win only one World Series? Then the Tigers got beat by the Twin in 1987. After that, the Tigers were terrible.

it was idiotic to knock the yankee captain in 1976. if everyone on yankees hit like munson did in that series, the reds may've lost. the first time i thought "maybe this guy should hold his tongue!" was then.

YES!!!!

yeah, 'Spanky' (I'd call him 'Sparky' but he believed in discipline) stroked those 'egos' like he was 'petting the family dog'! my hat is off to him!!! GREAT MANAGER!!!

AND, as I look at this team!!! I told my best friend in Denver, "You could never have a team like this again! at today's prices, you've got 4 $30 million dollar a year players!!! PLUS, Foster, Griffey, Conception, AND ALL THAT PITCHING!!! ONLY THE LA DODGERS COULD AFFORD THIS PAYROLL!!!!!!