O'Hara: Sparky was in it to win it

O'Hara: Sparky was in it to win it

Published Nov. 4, 2010 10:50 a.m. ET

Sparky Anderson arrived in Detroit in 1979 like a locomotive roaring through a small town in the middle of summer. He caused a commotion, and the sparks flew.

He was hired as an in-season replacement to fix the Tigers, but the Sparky Express got off the tracks. His first few weeks were a howling failure -- and it didn

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