Happy Birthday, Alvin and Walker
Thanks to my son’s Sports-Fact-A-Day calendar, I just learned the birthdays of Walker Cooper (Jan. 7,1915) and Alvin Dark (Jan. 8, 1922). Cooper was a key on the 1947 Giants’ “window breakers” who set the HR record, and Dark not only starred on the 1951 and 1954 pennant winners, but managed the team in SF as well, including the 1962 pennant winners.
RIP, Walker.