Elston

Download or read book Elston written by Arlene Howard and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with his early years as a St. Louis teenager, Elston tells of Elston Howard’s love of baseball and his encounters with racism. His three decades with the New York Yankees include numerous anecdotes about fellow Yankee legends such as Mickey Mantle, Whitey Ford, and Yogi Berra. Written with a wife’s compassion and a sportswriter’s eye for detail, and with countless personal moments and rarely seen photographs, Elston is the touching story of one of baseball’s great players.