Word: alston
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week Manager Walter Alston watched unhappily while the Dodgers lost 1-0 to the Colts-their 19th loss in 30 one-run games this season. Alston was as baffled as everybody else. "You start with the idea that you score so many runs and allow your opponent to score so many," he said. "Last year at this time, we had 23 more runs than we had allowed, and we were 1½ games ahead in first place. This year we have scored 29 more runs than we have had scored against us. The only difference is that...
...deep in the second division. Their fielding was sloppy, their hitting spotty. The biggest disappointment of all was Pitcher Sandy Koufax, 28, whose golden left arm accounted for 25 victories in 1963. Sandy was having arm trouble. He had won only five games, while losing four, and Manager Walter Alston even demoted him briefly to the bullpen...
...bishop's reluctance to take tougher action, no doubt, was the fact that among Lovett's staunchest supporters is a group of Atlanta's richest and most influential people who also happen to be pillars of the Episcopal Church. An example is wealthy Lawyer Philip Alston Jr., a senior warden of St. Luke's parish. Since 1959 he has personally been responsible for raising more than $350,000 for Lovett's building program-including one gift of $100,000 that was contingent upon the school's remaining closed to Negroes...
...bookies still picked the Yankees to win the second game. Dodger Manager Walter Alston's pitcher for this engagement was Johnny Podres, who at 31 is getting a trifle thick around the waist. There are those who joke that Bachelor Podres pitches harder off the field than on ("He's done all the things that Bo Belinsky says he has," goes one gag), but among his peers he has a reputation as a "money" pitcher who is toughest under pressure. Over 81 innings, he gave up only six hits and one run; then he handed the ball...
Last year the transformation from Flatbush to Hollywood was almost complete, but not quite. The Dodgers still were able to blow the big ones. By this season, though, O'Malley and Walt Alston (a pretty serious grind himself) succeeded. They didn't have quite as good a ball club but they didn't make the crucial mistakes either. Last month it was the Cardinals who folded, and what may be a new era for the National League began...