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He was the center fielder on the Tigers’ 1984 World Series championship team — making a spectacular catch to cement a Game 3 victory over the San Diego Padres — and became a favorite of eventual Hall of Fame manager Sparky Anderson.

She’s sparky but focused as she sits in her home office.

Thurman Munson, Sparky Lyle and the rest of the players were ordered to adhere to the old jingle, “Shave and a Haircut,” even if it cost more than “two bits.”

After all, the Big Red Machine — Sparky Anderson‘s Cincinnati Reds — didn’t allow facial hair and they won back-to-back World Series in 1975 and ’76.

Mendelson called up comic strip creator Charles “Sparky” Schulz and told him he had just sold “A Charlie Brown Christmas” — and they would have mere months to write, animate, and bring the special to air.