In the final campaign of his Hall-of-Fame career, the 2158th win for the stern skipper moved him into third place all-time during the 1995 season as noted in his handwriting. The signature is all Sparky, an 8 with jutting angles in bold blue-point pen on the sweet spot of the Rawlings baseball in the era of Gene Budig. At the helm of three World Series winners in Cincinnati and Detroit, he would go on to finish with 2184 wins, fourth-all time, retiring in 1995.