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...Walt Alston, 50, another one-year, $42,000 contract to manage the National League's not-quite-victorious Los Angeles Dodgers. While the World Series was delayed by rain, idle sportswriters amused themselves by speculating that the job would go to Leo ("The Lip") Durocher, who insisted that the Bums would not have kicked the pennant away to the Giants had he been boss. But General Manager Buzzy Bavasi decided to stick with mild, long-suffering Alston, and he in turn let on that Durocher could come back too, as a coach. Shrugged Bavasi: "If Alston can live with...
...always tell an Englishman, it seems, if not by the way he speaks then, by his humor. And both the British accent and British humour were the featured performers at the first International Seminar Forum Wednesday night in Auditorium B of Alston Burr Hall...
...ball game was in the 13th inning, and the Los Angeles Dodgers were still locked tight in a 3-3 tie with the Houston Colts. In the Dodger dugout. Manager Walt Alston issued crisp orders to his lead-off batter, Shortstop Maurice Morning Wills...
...active players of 56 steals, set in 1959 by Chicago's Luis Aparicio. So swift and so canny is Wills that he has been caught trying to steal only five times this year, and the experts give him a chance to top even Cobb's record. Says Alston: "He's the greatest base stealer I've seen in the majors.'' Green Light for Go. The son of a Washington, D.C.. Baptist preacher. Wills spent nine years rattling around the Dodger farm system before the parent team brought him up to stay...
...performance put him far ahead of such former Dodger stars as Pee Wee Reese (30 bases in 1952) and Jackie Robinson (37 bases in 1949). Last year Manager Alston held null back by letting him run only on signals-Wills still stole 35 bases to lead the league. This year, says Wills, "I have the green light to run when I please.'1 And with a respectable .269 batting average (74 hits, all but eleven of them singles), the light goes on often...