Word: alston
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Dodgers, Hometown Piece for Messrs. Alston and Reese. Alas, even with a rooting muse like that, the team packed up for Los Angeles, leaving its poet in residence behind in Brooklyn, where she went on celebrating the borough, her "city of trees." But in the following season, she found that not all the bums had gone West. Drunks rang her doorbell at 3 a.m., and "one of my neighbors was robbed three times," she complained. So, at 78, after 35 years, Miss Moore moved to Greenwich Village, where a baseball diamond is very square...
...Zoilo Versalles run up his arm, over his shoulder, and halfway into leftfield for a two-base error. A sacrifice and two hits later, the Twins had a 2-0 lead. The Dodgers got back one in the seventh, and then, with the tying run on third, Manager Walt Alston made his move. He took Koufax out for a pinch hitter-Don Drysdale-who struck out on three pitches. After that the box score became a nightmare. The Twins won 5-1, with the aid of three Dodger errors (Alston's didn't count), a balk...
...that since Dizzy Dean won 30 for the St. Louis Cardinals in 1934. "I would have to win almost every start the rest of the way and pick up some in relief," says Koufax. With the Dodgers clinging to a thin lead and three teams in pursuit, Manager Walt Alston was thinking along exactly those lines...
...thinking about base hits, pitches well enough to post another eleven victories. Lefthander Claude Osteen, picked up over the winter from the American League's Washington Senators, has accounted for six, and "should have won three more victories than he shows," according to Manager Alston. The combined earned-run average of all three: a measly...
...Harvard-Radcliffe Civil Rights Coordinating Committee last night elected Harold A. McDougall III '67, of Adams House and Brentwood, N.Y., as chairman and Thaddas L. Alston '67, of Winthrop House and Chicago, III., as vice-chairman...