Walter Emmons Alston, nicknamed "Smokey," was an American baseball player and manager. He was born in Venice, Ohio. He is a graduate of Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, where he lettered three years in both basketball and baseball and is a member of the University's Hall of Fame. He maintained his residence in Oxford and died there in 1984 at the age of 72. Alston was a first baseman with the St Louis Cardinals in the 1936 season.

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  • Walter Emmons Alston, nicknamed "Smokey," was an American baseball player and manager. He was born in Venice, Ohio. He is a graduate of Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, where he lettered three years in both basketball and baseball and is a member of the University's Hall of Fame. He maintained his residence in Oxford and died there in 1984 at the age of 72. Alston was a first baseman with the St Louis Cardinals in the 1936 season. He played in his only major league game on September 27, as a substitute for future Hall of Famer Johnny Mize, who had earlier been ejected from the game. Alston struck out in his only major league at bat on three pitches - although the second strike was a long fly ball with home run distance that curved foul at the last second. After returning to the minor leagues for several years as a player and then as a manager - including a stint as the player-manager for the first U.S. -based integrated baseball team after 1898, the Nashua Dodgers of the class-B New England League - he was named manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers for the 1954 season. A reporter once asked Alston about his playing record; he said, "Well, I came up to bat for the Cards back in '36, and Lon Warneke struck me out. That's it. " He also played first base--two fielding chances, one error. Alston won seven National League pennants in his 23 years tenure as Dodgers manager. In 1955 he led Brooklyn to the pennant and its only World Series championship; the team repeated as National League champions in 1956. After the Dodgers moved to Los Angeles, Alston led the team to pennants in 1959, 1963, 1965, 1966 and 1974, and three more world championships (1959, 1963, 1965). He was the first Dodger manager to win a World Series. Named Manager of the Year six times, Alston also guided a victorious NL All-Star squad a record seven times. He retired after the 1976 season with 2,063 wins (2,040 in the regular season and 23 in the postseason). As a manager, Alston was noted for his studious approach to the game (he had taught school in the off-season while in the minors) and for signing 23 one-year contracts with the Dodgers at a time when multi-year contracts were becoming the norm in the sport. Walter Alston was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in 1983.
  • Walter Emmons Alston war ein US-amerikanischer Baseballspieler und -manager in der Major League Baseball. Sein Spitzname war Smokey.
  • ウォルター・オルストン(Walter Emmons Alston、 1911年12月1日 - 1984年10月1日)はアメリカオハイオ州ベニス出身、メジャーリーグの元監督。ニックネームは「Smokey」。選手としては内野手(一塁手)、右投右打。1954年から1976年の23シーズンにわたってドジャースの監督を務め、7回ワールドシリーズに出場し、うち4回優勝している。1983年にアメリカ野球殿堂入り。
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  • Walter Emmons Alston, nicknamed "Smokey," was an American baseball player and manager. He was born in Venice, Ohio. He is a graduate of Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, where he lettered three years in both basketball and baseball and is a member of the University's Hall of Fame. He maintained his residence in Oxford and died there in 1984 at the age of 72. Alston was a first baseman with the St Louis Cardinals in the 1936 season.
  • Walter Emmons Alston war ein US-amerikanischer Baseballspieler und -manager in der Major League Baseball. Sein Spitzname war Smokey.
  • ウォルター・オルストン(Walter Emmons Alston、 1911年12月1日 - 1984年10月1日)はアメリカオハイオ州ベニス出身、メジャーリーグの元監督。ニックネームは「Smokey」。選手としては内野手(一塁手)、右投右打。1954年から1976年の23シーズンにわたってドジャースの監督を務め、7回ワールドシリーズに出場し、うち4回優勝している。1983年にアメリカ野球殿堂入り。
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