My Daily Domestic Clips 11/06/2010 (a.m.)

• Sparky Anderson, “a great human being and a man of faith” – The Deacon’s Bench – Annotated tags: currentevents

  • Shortly after he arrived in Detroit in 1990, Maida was invited by
    the baseball team to throw out the ceremonial first pitch at Tiger Stadium.

    The archdiocese, which oversees 1.3 million Catholics, said in a
    statement released today:

    “The story is told that Sparky Anderson became
    interested in Catholicism when playing on a farm team for the Los Angeles
    Dodgers. He started going to Sunday Mass in Texas with some of his teammates.
    Later, when Sparky played for the Philadelphia Phillies, he befriended a priest
    in Pennsylvania who worked with him to become a baptized Catholic.”

    The
    Rev. Don Worthy, a retired priest of the Detroit archdiocese, said that Anderson
    “led by the power of good example.”

    Maida and Worthy noted that Anderson
    helped children, in particular “through his pediatric charity know as CATCH
    (Caring Athletes Team for Children’s and Henry Ford Hospital).”

    “His
    world was more than baseball,” Cardinal Maida said. “I pray that he is now at
    peace with the Lord.”

    May his soul and the souls of all the faithful
    departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace.

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