Word: alvin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Shockley stayed busy all spring, debating on television several times, once against Dr. Alvin F. Poussaint, assistant dean of student affairs at the Medical School. After he spoke at Yale, the Yale administration suspended nine students who protested his appearance...
Despite the hazards, the A's keep winning. In 1972 and 1973 a key reason was Manager Dick Williams, who encouraged candor in the clubhouse while applying a strong hand on the field. Williams quit after last year's World Series. His replacement is Alvin Dark, who managed the A's for Finley when the team was still in Kansas City...
...When Alvin Dark took over as Oakland's manager this spring, he said he had a model for the job. It was not John McGraw, Miller Huggins, Casey Stengel, or any other successful field boss. "The past few years," announced Dark with a straight face, "I've tried to think of how Jesus Christ would handle ballplayers...
...control over his empire than does any of his major-league rivals. "In reality," he says, "you could get one of the park policemen to stand in the dugout and wave pitchers in and out of the ball game." Recently, he seemed ready to fire his present manager, Alvin Dark. "I'm playing to win!" he screamed at Dark after a game against the White Sox. "If you don't start playing aggressive baseball, I'll kick your [expletive deleted] ass out of here. We won two years without you, and we can win again without...
...Alvin Dark, 52, was not always so ready to turn the other cheek. In a distinguished major league career that spanned 14 years as third baseman and shortstop for six teams, including two seasons as captain of the pennant-winning New York Giants, he was one of the most aggressive players in the game. When he became manager of the San Francisco Giants in 1961 he quickly earned a reputation as a first-class thrower of chairs and pounder of tables...