Walter Alston, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American baseball player
Date of Birth: 01-Dec-1911
Place of Birth: Venice Township, Ohio, United States
Date of Death: 01-Oct-1984
Profession: baseball player
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius 
About Walter Alston
- Walter Emmons Alston (December 1, 1911 – October 1, 1984), nicknamed "Smokey", was an American baseball player and manager in Major League Baseball (MLB).
- 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 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 and 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 (NL) 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.
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