Description: Walt Alston Signed Vintage Wire Photo HOF COA Los Angles Dodgers. 8X10 Nr Mt, signed in blue pen. JSA James Spence Cert #C22951 A beauty. Who dated 1963 Caption reads: Boss Man of THe World Champions faces the media as the Dodgers just crushed the New York Yankees in the World Series sweeping the Yankees. Walter Emmons Alston (December 1, 1911 – October 1, 1984), nicknamed "Smokey", was an ". Alston grew up in rural Ohio and lettered in baseball and basketball at Miami University in Ohio. Though his MLB playing career consisted of one game and one at-bat with theSt. Louis Cardinals in 1936, he played and managed for several seasons in minor league baseball. His service included a stint as manager of the Nashua Dodgers, the first integrated professional team in modern baseball. He was promoted to manage the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1954 after several successful seasons in Brooklyn's Class AAA minor league teams. As a major league manager, Alston led Dodgers teams to seven National League (NL) pennants and four world championships. His 1955 team was the only World Series championship team while the club was in Brooklyn; they clinched the NL pennant earlier in the calendar year than any previous pennant winner in league history. Alston retired with more than 2,000 career wins and managed NL Alston was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1983. He suffered a heart attack that year, was hospitalized for a month and was unable to attend his Hall of Fame induction ceremony. He never fully recovered and he died at a hospital in Oxford, Ohio on October 1, 1984. Click on " Me Page" for collector tips, New England sports card show calendar and items for sale on Boston's teams, players & events. Buying collections, deals, offers welcomed. I answer my email write. Twenty five years in the business, forty five years collecting. Jim.See my ME Page . Be sure to add me to your favorites list!quadAP6.0
Price: 149.99 USD
Location: Winthrop, Massachusetts
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Player: Walter Alston
Original/Reprint: Original
Autograph Type: Authentic Original
Sport: Baseball-MLB
Team-Baseball: los Angeles Dodgers
Team: Los Angeles Dodgers
Product: Photo
Autograph Authentication: James Spence (JSA)
