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<p><p>of All The Great Ballplayers To Wear Yankee Pinstripes, Elston Howard Was Among The Proudest. Remarkable Temperament And Courage Made Him The Jackie Robinson Of Baseball's Most Storied Franchise. No Yankee Carried Himself With More Dignity. No Yankee Had Greater Respect For His Teammates Or Love For His Wife And Family. And No One Loved Being A Yankee More Than Elston Howard. Beginning With Howard's Early Years As A St. Louis Teenager, The Book Relates His Encounters With Racism And His Love Of Baseball. He Began His Professional Career For The Legendary Negro League Team The Kansas City Monarchs. His Three Decades With The New York Yankees Include Numerous Anecdotes About Fellow Yankee Legends Such As Mickey Mantle, Whitey Ford, And Yogi Berra. With Countless Personal Moments And Never-before- Published Photographs And Clippings From Family Albums, Elston And Me Is The Touching Story Of One Of Baseball's Great Players.</p><h3>publishers Weekly</h3><p>arlene Howard, Elston Howard's Widow, Details Her Husband's Life From His St. Louis Childhood Through His Untimely Death. The Book Successfully Conveys Both The Respect That Howard Commanded From His Teammates And His Struggles

Who reads Elston and Me: The Story of the First Black Yankee (Volume 1) (Sports and American Culture)?

Author

Howard, Arlene; Wimbish, Ralph

Publisher

Columbia: University of Missouri Press

Published

2001

Language

EN

ISBN

9780826213587

Category

biography

Subjects

Memoir, Anthropology, History

Rating

3.5 / 5 (8 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13