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Title: Walter Alston
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Rustan, Joe
Date Created and/or Issued: 1966
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Used in the Exhibit: Play by Play - A Century of L.A. Sports Photography, 1889-1989
When the Dodgers hired manager Walter Alston before the 1954 season, he signed a one-year contract. Some 23 year later, he continued to labor under those terms. Alston won four World Series and over 2,000 games before being replaced by Tommy Lasorda before the 1977 season. He died in 1984. Photo dated: Otober 6, 1966.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00048978
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 8376.
CARL0000053124
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/17507
Subject: Alston, Walter,--1911-1984
Los Angeles Dodgers (Baseball team)
Baseball
Baseball managers
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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