Catholic News Service: The Nov. 4 death of George Lee “Sparky” Anderson is being mourned by baseball fans and countless others around the country, including in Detroit, where he managed the Tigers for 16 years and led the team to a World Series championship in 1984. “He was a remarkable person … a great human being and a man of faith,” Cardinal Adam J. Maida, retired archbishop of Detroit, said in a statement. ”The baseball world and our community have lost a great ambassador.” He met Anderson shortly after his arrival in Detroit as archbishop. Read more of the CNS obituary here and this link here for CNS’ Mark Pattison’s 1996 interview with Anderson.
