Walter Alston, American baseball player and manager (born 1911)

Walter Alston

American baseball player and manager (1911–1984)

Walter Emmons Alston, nicknamed "Smokey", was an American baseball manager in Major League Baseball who managed the Brooklyn / Los Angeles Dodgers from 1954 through 1976, signing 23 one-year contracts with the team. Regarded as one of the greatest managers in baseball history,…