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...while Bonds moved around the league a lot, legendary Dodgers manager Walter Alston did not. The only move Alston made in his 23-year managerial career was from Brooklyn to Los Angeles, and then only when the entire franchise was moving as well after the 1957 season. Before embarking on his career as a skipper, Alston kicked around in the minor leagues as a first baseman. In 1936, he got his one--and only--major league plate appearance. Ten points if you can select the correct outcome of that sole appearance...
...Though Alston chose to move from the playing field to the dugout, several other major leaguers have retired to the broadcasting booth. Five points if you can name the announcer below who socked the most home runs in his major league career, and one additional point for naming the team with which each announcer started...
DIED. Walter Alston, 72, calm, temper-cooling, pennant-collecting manager who from 1954 to 1976 guided the Dodgers, in Brooklyn and then in Los Angeles, to seven National League titles and four World Championships; of heart disease; in Oxford, Ohio, near the sharecropper's farm where he was born. Alston, who struck out in his only major league turn at bat in 1936, won more than 2,000 regular-season games. During his career he steadied such future Hall of Fame members as Jackie Robinson, Duke Snider, Sandy Koufax and Don Drysdale, and was named to the Hall himself...
...Alston Dies...
...ANGELES - Walter Alston, who guided the Los Angeles Dodgers to seven National League pennants and four world championships during his 23 years as their manager, died yesterday in Ohio, the team announced...