We continue the 25 greatest Dodgers of all time countdown with one of the two managers in the top 25.
A great Alston story, recounted in many books on the Dodgers, comes from the time when teams still traveled by bus. One time, the bus the Dodgers were using was old and had no air conditioning. Several players spent the trip yelling and getting onAlston, sitting in the front, stood up and said: “I don’t want to hear another word about this bus.
And if anyone has something more to say about it, he can step off right now and we’ll settle it right here.” No one said a word after that.“I don’t know whether you’re Republican or Democrat or Catholic or Protestant, and I’ve known you for 18 years,” Murray wrote of Alston. “You were as Middle-Western as a pitchfork. Black players who have a sure instinct for the closet bigot recognized immediately you didn’t know what prejudice was. There was no ‘side’ to Walter Alston.
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