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Hall of Fame Plaque

Inducted in 1983

Walter Alston Dodger Jersey

Number Retired on June 5, 1977

Walter Alston
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Walter Alston
Number Retired on June 5, 1977

Walter Emmons Alston was a virtual unknown when he took over the helm of the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1954, but he became well-known in a hurry. The long-time minor league skipper guided his first Dodger team to 92 wins and followed that by piloting the 1955 Dodgers to 98 victories and their first World Championship in franchise history. He went on to lead the Dodgers to six more National League pennants and three more World Series titles (1959, 1963 and 1965) in a 23-year career in which he tallied 2,040 victories to place sixth on the all-time managerial wins list. His 3,658 total games managed rank eighth all time. Alston, who played in one Major League game, that with the St. Louis Cardinals in 1934, was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1983.

Walter Emmons Alston (December 1, 1911 – October 1, 1984), nicknamed "Smokey", was an American baseball player and manager in Major League Baseball

Walter Alston:

• He is best known for managing the Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers from 1954 through 1976, and signed 23 one-year contracts with the team.
• He had a calm, reticent demeanor, for which he was sometimes also known as "The Quiet Man."
• Alston grew up in rural Ohio and lettered in baseball and basketball at Miami University in Oxford.
• Though his MLB playing career consisted of only one game, two innings played, and one at-bat with the St. Louis Cardinals in 1936, Alston spent 19 years in minor league baseball as a player (1935–1939 and 1943), player-manager (1940–1942, 1944–1947) and non-playing manager (1948–1953). His service included a stint as skipper of the 1946 Nashua Dodgers, the first U.S.-based integrated professional team in modern baseball.
• He was promoted to manage the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1954 after six successful seasons with Brooklyn's Triple-A teams, the St. Paul Saints and Montreal Royals.
• As a major league manager, Alston led Dodger teams to seven National League pennants and four world championships.
• His 1955 team was the only World Series championship team while the club was in Brooklyn; they clinched the NL pennant earlier in the calendar year than any previous pennant winner in league history.

Alston retired with more than 2,000 career wins and managed NL All-Star teams to seven victories. He was selected as Manager of the Year six times.

Alston was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1983. He suffered a heart attack that year, was hospitalized for a month and was unable to attend his Hall of Fame induction ceremony. He never fully recovered and died at a hospital in Oxford, Ohio, on October 1, 1984.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Alston

Sports Illustrated

September 26, 1955

Preview of the World Series

Walter Alston

1962

Los Angeles Dodgers
Press - Radio - Television Guide

New Dodger Plane

Fasten your money belts, please... There's heavy turbulence over Candlestick!
- Pilot O'Malley

The only way to fly! - Co-Pilot Alston

1968

Los Angeles Dodgers
Press, Radio and T.V. Guide

Dean of N.L. Managers...
Skipper Walt Alston, who is managing Dodgers for fifteenth season (1954-1968). He has won six pennants, four World Championships and six out of eight All-Star Games for the National League. Twice the Dodgers have bounced back from the second division to a World Series triumph the following season. The Skipper faces the same challenge in 1968.