# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alvin-dark
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:01:58.312Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alvin-dark"
name: "Alvin Dark"
slug: "alvin-dark"
description: "Alvin Ralph Dark, nicknamed \"Blackie\" and \"the Swamp Fox\", was an American professional baseball shortstop and manager. He played fourteen years in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Boston/Milwaukee Braves, the New York Giants (1950–1956), the St. Louis Cardinals (1956–1958), the Chicago Cubs (1958–59), and the Philadelphia Phillies (1960). Later, he managed the San Francisco Giants (1961–1964), the Kansas City/Oakland Athletics, the Cleveland Indians (1968–1971), and the San Diego Padres (1977). He was a three-time All-Star and a two-time World Series champion, once as a player (1954) and once as a manager (1974)."
tagline: "American baseball player and manager (1922-2014)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Alvin_Dark_1953.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1922-01-07"
deathDate: "2014-11-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.63
  momentum:             0.3643724696356275
  historical:           8.610949333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1260397/"
    handle:    "nm1260397"
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%89%BE%E7%88%BE%E6%96%87%C2%B7%E9%81%94%E5%85%8B"
    title: "艾爾文·達克"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvin_Dark"
    title: "Alvin Dark"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%DA%A4%D9%8A%D9%86_%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%83"
    title: "الڤين دارك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvin_Dark"
    title: "Alvin Dark"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvin_Dark"
    title: "Alvin Dark"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvin_Dark"
    title: "Alvin Dark"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%AB%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A3%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%80%E3%83%BC%E3%82%AF"
    title: "アルヴィン・ダーク"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvin_Dark"
    title: "Alvin Dark"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvin_Dark"
    title: "Alvin Dark"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2840597"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1249443"
    title: "Alvin Dark"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump