Enquirer sports columnist Paul Daugherty is replaying the 1975 World Series using APBA Baseball, a well-known board game in existence since 1951.
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In due time, the way Sparky Anderson ran his pitching staff would be seen as standard, but 1975 wasn’t yet that time. In ’75, the Reds set a major-league record by going 45 starts in a row, beginning on June 12, without a complete game. Captain Hook used 133 pitchers during that run.
Sparky went to his bullpen 277 times in the regular season. Ironically, that was only 4th-most in baseball.