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Detroit Tiger Manager Sparky Anderson chats with a young fan before a game at Detroit Stadium during
the 1995 season. Anderson resigned from his position Monday after 1 7 years as the Tigers' manager.
Anderson is the win-
ningest manager in De
troit's history.
DETROIT (AP) — Sparky An
derson will always follow the De
troit Tigers. He just won’t man-
e them again.
Anderson, the winningest
manager in Tigers’ history, re
signed Monday after 17 years
that included a World Series
championship in 1984 and the
AL East title in 1987.
Anderson, his eyes welling,
made the announcement at a
news conference packed with me
dia, coaches, players and friends.
He would like to manage another
club, but only a contender.
“I think it would be good to go
[inside with a W,” said Anderson,
[whose Tigers compiled a 60-84
I record this year. “We were hav
ing one (win) maybe every three
weeks. I was forgetting how to
shake hands.”
His resignation had been ex
pected, but with Anderson it was
n’t certain until he officially an
nounced it.
“To be around me, you have to
be a little bit cuckoo,” Anderson
said. “One day it’s written in con
crete, the next day it’s written in
sand. I always felt if I didn’t
change my mind every 24 hours,
people would find me boring.”
With his wife Carol in atten
dance, Anderson spent nearly
seven minutes thanking everyone
from fans to vendors to owners
for his wonderful stay in Detroit.
It was vintage Anderson, a man
of the people.
“People are more important
than yourself,” he said. “The last
12 years, I learned to give of my
self and not worry about your
self.”
Tigers president John McHale
called Anderson “one of a handful
of the greatest managers in base
ball history.”
“He came, he gave and he nev
er stole,” McHale said. “He leaves
today as he came: his own man.
Cherish him, remember him. We
will not see his like again.”
Anderson, 61, will wait at
least 30 days to look at his op
tions for the future. He hopes to
manage again next year, but if
he’s not working by spring train
ing, he’ll stay in retirement.
“Anybody who thinks they can
just pick up the phone and go to
work is crazy,” he said.
Anderson, who compiled a
record of 1,331-1,248 with the
Tigers, urged Detroit fans not to
• lose faith in the struggling club.
He said it would take time to
build a winner again, but it
would happen.
“Just stick with ’em,” he said.
Anderson, who completed a
two-year contract extension
worth $1 million per year, has
been a winner almost everywhere
he has managed. He led the
Cincinnati Reds into the World
Series four times.
Mariners cap amazing run, 9-1
jSeattle beat Cali
fornia enter the
postseason.
SEATTLE (AP) —
With a crowd of 52,356
wildly cheering for
Randy Johnson as if it
were the seventh game
of the World Series, the
Seattle Mariners final-
got the opportunity
to get there Monday.
The Mariners
reached the postseason
for the first time in
ir 19-year history,
winning the AL West
title by beating the
California Angels 9-1
in baseball’s first one-
game playoff since
1980.
Johnson (18-2),
maintaining his men
acing stare on every
pitch, was perfect for 5
2-3 inning and finished
with a three-hitter and
12 strikeouts.
Leading 1-0, the
Mariners broke open
the game in the sev
enth when Luis Sojo’s
bases-loaded double —
aided pitcher Mark
Langston’s throwing
error — turned into a
four-run play.
The victory finished
off a rollercoaster sea
son for Seattle, which
trailed California by 13
games on Aug. 2. The
Mariners missed a
chance to wrap up the
division by losing Sat
urday and Sunday
while California won
twice for a tie.
The Mariners will
play wild-card winner
New York in the best-
of-5 first round. The se
ries begins Tuesday
night at Yankee Stadi
um with Chris Bosio
likely to start for Seat
tle against David Cone.
Seattle was 9-4
against the Yankees,
including a 3-3 mark in
New York.
Johnson, who won
on three days’ rest, will
not be ready to pitch
until at least Game 3
Friday night at the
Kingdome. The
Mariners hoped to save
their ace for Game 1,
but needed him to win
the most important
game in franchise his
tory.
Johnson, the leading
candidate for the AL
Cy Young Award, led
the majors with 294
strikeouts. He walked
just one, and lost his
shutout when Tony
Phillips homered to
open the ninth.
The Kingdome fans
were on their feet
screaming and shout
ing encouragement
from the first inning
on, chanting “Randy,
Randy, Randy,” when
he struck out the side
in the third and fifth.
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Ideal Cotton Bowl is domed
□ A consultant's report
said the game would be
better suited indoors.
DALLAS (AP) — To
counter its “Ice Bowl” image,
the Cotton Bowl ideally
should be played in a domed
stadium, a consultant’s report
released Monday says.
The most frequently men
tioned weakness of the Cotton
Bowl in a national study of
the Tier I selection process,
the 60-year-old New Year’s
Day classic and the future of
post-season football was the
perception of cold weather on
game day.
“Most people think of the
Tee Bowl’ when they think of
the Cotton Bowl,” according
to the study by Arthur Ander
son commissioned by the Cot
ton Bowl Athletic Association.
The company interviewed
conference commissioners,
athletic directors, coaches,
media, agents, civic leaders
and sponsors.
Southwest Conference
Football
FLASHBACK
1922
Conference Champion: Baylor 5-0 SWC record, 8-3 overall
Texas A&M's finish: SWC: 2-2 (third), 7-2 overall
Player of the Year: Wesley Bradshaw, running back, Baylor
Stat of the Year: For the first time in SWC history, all eight teams finished
with .500 or better records.
Game of the Year: A&M 14, Texas 7 — the win gave Baylor its first title
Tigers’ Anderson steps down Rangers
form strong
’95 nucleus
□ Texas finished in
third place this year.
ARLINGTON(AP) — The
dust hadn’t even settled on an
other unfulfilled season for the
Texas Rangers and manager
Johnny Oates already was
spewing the wait-til-next-year
mantra that has become the
franchise’s motto.
“We’ve got a lot of work to
do,” Oates said, “but I think we
have the nucleus for a very good
ballclub.”
That nucleus of Will Clark,
Juan Gonzalez, Ivan Rodriguez
and Dean Palmer also was
there this year, yet all they
could muster was a 74-70 record
that left them in third place in
the AL West, four games from
first.
The Rangers were in first
place as late as July, they re
mained in contention for the
playoffs until the fourth-to-last
game of the season and they
had a winning record for the
fifth time in seven years.
But these baby steps of
progress won’t cut it. Not in a
town where the
Dallas Cow
boys are king
and especial
ly not when
Seattle,
Cleveland
and Colorado
all make the
playoffs before
Texas.
If Seattle defeated California
in their one-game showdown for
the AL West title, the Rangers
would be the only AL team nev
er to make the playoffs. Texas
and Florida are the only teams
never to reach the playoffs and
the Marlins have been around
for three seasons.
Next year will be the 25th in
Arlington for the Rangers, and
the 36th for the franchise that
used to be the Washington Sen
ators. Without as much as a di
vision title to show, that silver
anniversary will be tarnished.
Just like each of the last few
springs, this was supposed to be
the year.
Oates and general manager
Doug Melvin had come over from
the Baltimore Orioles and were
to bring over the winning atti
tude that had been lacking here.
They established exactly that
in Port Charlotte, Fla. The only
problem was they did it with re
placement players.
Things got a lot harder once
the strike ended, although
Melvin did a great job of loading
Oates’ bench with solid, depend
able veterans he had managed
before. Mark McLemore and
Mickey Tettleton ended up being
saviors who kept the team to
gether in many phases.
Texas’ downfall, though, was
it’s longtime nemesis: injuries.
Next to that wait-til-next-year
motto the team logo could be a
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