Today’s post is about the longest tenured Dodger manager. Walter Emmons Alston. Smokey to his friends. Alston was the manager when the team moved from Brooklyn. He was just 3 years removed from guiding them to their only World Championship in their long history. His team was a mixture of old Brooklyn stars, Reese, Hodges, Snider, Furillo, Erskine, and some new blood just beginning to make some noise on the MLB landscape.
But Jackie was gone, having retired after the 1956 season and a subsequent trade to the Giants. So was Campy, now confined to a wheelchair after a terrible accident in New Jersey that winter.