Original sentence: Walter Alston was in his twenty-first year as manager of the club
Edited sentence: However, as the World Series would prove, there was no substitute for experience; the A's did not beat themselves and the Dodgers made a number of mental errors.It was all very brisk and efficient—Big (Dodger) Blue, with the unflappable, perennially studious Walter Alston, in his twenty-first year as manager of the club, holding everything together.On paper, at least, they were.The Series promised, at the very least, to be a memorable conflict of worldviews.The businesslike Los Angeles Dodgers, for their part, looked downright corporate, and seemed, to many, to be the better team.Unlike the Oakland squad, nobody in the Dodger clubhouse appeared to need therapy to work out any simmering interpersonal issues