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This week 41 years ago: Beloved Cincinnati Reds manager Sparky Anderson was fired from his sports talk show on
WKRP In Cincinnati. I must be nuts. Every time I come into this town, I get fired, said Anderson at the conclusion of
WKRP s Sparky episode. It was first broadcast on Christmas Eve 1979 during
WKRP s second season.
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The Reds Hall of Fame manager, who led the Big Red Machine to back-to-back World Championships, was hired to do a two-hour sports program by station manager Arthur Carlson (Dayton native Gordon Jump).
Carlson envisioned WKRP nationally syndicating
The Bullpen, while righting a wrong, the Reds firing of Anderson after two World Series titles, four National League pennants and five division titles in nine seasons. He was fired after the 1978 season and promptly hired to manage the Detroit Tigers.