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Walter Emmons Alston was a virtual unknown when he took over the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1954, but he quickly became well-known. The long-time minor league skipper guided his first Dodger team to 92 wins, then led the 1955 Dodgers to 98 victories and the first World Championship in franchise history. Over a 23-year career, he led the Dodgers to six more National League pennants and three more World Series titles, in 1959, 1963, and 1965, while totaling 2,040 victories for sixth place on the all-time managerial wins list. His 3,658 total games managed rank eighth all time. Alston, who played in one Major League game with the St. Louis Cardinals in 1934, was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1983.
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