American baseball player and manager (died 2014)

Alvin Dark

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).

Born

1922

January 7

Died

2014

Era

1920s

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Key dates

1922 Born
2014 Died

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1325 Afonso IV becomes King of Portugal.
1558 French troops, led by Francis, Duke of Guise, take Calais, the last continental possession of England.

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The world in 1922

When Alvin arrived

april 1 In newly formed Northern Ireland, six Catholics are murdered in the Arnon Street killings, one week after six others were killed in the McMahon killings.
april 15 U.S. Senator John B. Kendrick of Wyoming introduces a resolution calling for an investigation of a secret land deal, which leads to the discovery of the Teapot Dome scandal.
april 16 The Treaty of Rapallo, pursuant to which Germany and the Soviet Union re-establish diplomatic relations, is signed.
april 20 The Soviet government creates the South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast within the Georgian SSR.

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Aloe Blacc 1979– American musician, singer, songwriter, record producer, actor, businessman and philanthropist Dustin Diamond 1977–2021 American actor, director, stand-up comedian, and musician (born 1977) Éric Gagné 1976– Canadian baseball player Israel Putnam 1718–1790 American general (died 1790) Joseph Whitty 1904–1923 Irish Republican died on hunger strike during the 1923 Irish Hunger Strikes (born 1904) Lamar Jackson 1997– American football player Lauren Cohan 1982– American-English actress Sandford Fleming 1827–1915 Scottish-Canadian engineer, created Universal Standard Time (died 1915) Tony Conigliaro 1945–1990 American baseball player (born 1945)

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Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1922

Barbara Bel Geddes 1922–2005 American actress (born 1922) Bill Johnston 1922– Australian cricketer and businessman (died 2007) Cecil H. Underwood 1922–2008 American educator and politician, 25th Governor of West Virginia (born 1922) Charles Mingus 1922–1979 American bassist, composer, and bandleader (died 1979) Christiaan Barnard 1922–2001 South African surgeon and academic (died 2001) Denholm Elliott 1922–1992 English-Spanish actor (died 1992) Enrico Berlinguer 1922–1984 Italian politician (born 1922) Erich Hartmann 1922–1993 German colonel and pilot (died 1993) Francesco Rosi 1922–2015 Italian director and screenwriter (born 1922)

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