Word: alston
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Second Game. Shaken by the opening-day debacle, Dodger Manager Walter Alston showed up for the game wearing mismatched socks, and slim Second Baseman Charley Neal (5 ft. 10 in., 156 Ibs.) worried aloud in the locker room that the pains in his stomach meant an ulcer. In the first inning Neal gave his stomach cause for more pain by botching a double-play ball, opened the way for two quick Sox runs. But in the fifth, Neal grimly homered into the lower left-field stands for a run-the first time the Dodgers had scored in 14 innings. Suddenly...
Lover Man, by Alston Anderson. Fifteen arresting short stories about smalltown Southern Negroes...
...salvaged a win in the fifth game, on Shaw's 9-hit shutout that involved some brilliant masterminding in the eighth, when Lopez and Alston battled for 20 minutes changing pitchers and pinch-hitters...
Lover Man, by Alston Anderson. Many an established author might envy this new writer these 15 expertly crafted stories about Negroes in a small Southern town...
Lover Man, by Alston Anderson. Fifteen expertly told short stories about life among Negroes of a small Southern town establish the author as a first-rate writer, on his first try between hard covers...