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The great thing about Walter Alston is that he endures. The Bronx cheers of second-guessing fans bounce off his hide, and needling from his limber-lipped predecessor Charlie Dressen does not faze him at all. His patience is paying off: he has built a team of winners out of...
Last week Manager Alston took his Dodgers to Chicago. They were riding high. For the second time this season they had gone ten games without a defeat. They were nine games in front of the National League; they had won 21, lost only two, and their average stood at .913...
While the high-flying Brooklyn Dodgers were knocked down by the Chicago Cubs, 10 to 8, to break their 10-game winning streak yesterday, the lowly Boston Red Sox were cheered by the news that Ted Williams has decided to return to baseball, and won, 4 to 3, over the...
Neat Squeeze. Alston's big moment came later, in the last of the eighth. Now the Giants were ahead 5-4. The Dodgers had men on first and third-one out. At the plate, Jackie Robinson laid down a neat bunt to squeeze Runner Don Zimmer home. But Zimmer...
The game was over anyway. Willie Mays's fine shoestring catch, which made it official, was something of an anticlimax. The Dodgers, with the problem of stretching their winning streak finally behind them, could settle down for the long season's scramble for the pennant.