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Jackie Robinson, Sandy Koufax, And Walter Alston
Published 1/1/2007 by Rob at 6-4-2 — an Angels/Dodgers double play blog
... . What I wrote was
Koufax's career is generally divided into two parts, 1955-1960 (during which he was poorly used and generally ineffective because of it, something that caused friction between Walter Alston and Jackie Robinson), and 1961 through his retirement in 1966.
Since I was in Arkansas at the time, I was relying exclusively on my Net sources, and in this case, Wikipedia's Sandy Koufax article, which had this to say:
Jackie Robinson, in his final season, clashed with Alston on several different subjects, including Koufax. Robinson saw that Koufax was talented and had flashes of brilliance, and Robinson objected to Koufax being benched for weeks at a time.
But as we all know, you shouldn't trust Wikipedia, because anyone can edit anything at any time, and do so without any kind of corroborating source. Once I got home, it became a lot easier, as I was able to dig out my ...
