Dodgers manager Walter Alston is all smiles as he is presented the 1974 UPI Manager of the Year Award by UPI sports writer Jim Cour shortly before Dodgers-Reds contest here 4/14. DATE: 4-14-1975 ORIGINAL or REPRINT: Type 3 - Second or later-generation photo, printed from a duplicate negative or wire photo process, within about 2 years of when it was shot TEAM: Los Angeles Dodgers SUBJECTS: Walter Alston, Jim Cour APPROXIMATE SIZE: 8-1/2"x11" NUMBER OF PHOTOS: 1 COMMENTS / CONDITION: This is one of a large accumulation of vintage sports photographs, slides and negatives that we will be listing over the coming months. Wear on these, if any, is mostly confined to minor corner and edge wear, but see scans for further details including condition. We do not deal in stock images or modern reprints, and all scans shown are of the actual vintage photograph, slide or negative being sold. If you have any questions about a particular piece, please ask before the auction ends. BIO: Walter Emmons Alston (Smokey) was born in 1911 in Venice, OH and died in 1984 in Oxford, OH. He went to college at Miami University. He played major league baseball for a single season in a single game in 1936 as 1st baseman for the St. Louis Cardinals, and was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1983. A reporter once asked Alston about his playing record; he said, "Well, I came up to bat for the Cards back in '36, and Lon Warneke struck me out. That's it." Alston went on to manage the Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers from 1954 to 1976. As a manager, Alston was noted for his studious approach to the game (he had taught school in the off-season while in the minors) and for signing 23 one-year contracts with the Dodgers at a time when multi-year contracts were becoming the norm in the sport. SKU: L20239
Item: L20239
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