# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/walter-alston
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:03:34.185Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/walter-alston"
name: "Walter Alston"
slug: "walter-alston"
description: "Walter Emmons Alston, nicknamed \"Smokey\", was an American baseball manager in Major League Baseball (MLB) who managed the Brooklyn / Los Angeles Dodgers from 1954 through 1976, signing 23 one-year contracts with the team. Regarded as one of the greatest managers in baseball history, Alston was known for his calm, reticent demeanor, for which he was sometimes referred to as \"the Quiet Man.\""
tagline: "American baseball player and manager (1911–1984)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Walter_Alston_waves_to_fans_in_1976_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1911-12-01"
deathDate: "1984-10-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump