[Rarebooks] FS: Elston Howard's Personal Address Book: Jackie Robinson, Harry Belafonte, Yogi Berra, NO steroid providers

[Charles Agvent]

HOWARD, Elston.    SIGNED PERSONAL ADDRESS BOOK of New  York  Yankee
catcher with many names including Jackie Robinson,Yogi Berra, etc.
Small  (2-3/4"  x 3-3/4") pocket-sized otherwise unremarkable  address
book  but  for  the  fact that it belonged to great  New  York  Yankee
catcher  Elston  Howard  who  has SIGNED it with his  address  at  the
beginning  along  with another smaller partial signature on the  front
pastedown.  It  contains numerous names, phone numbers, and  addresses
written  by Howard including Jackie Robinson, Harry Belafonte, Carmine
Basilio,  Rocky  Colavito,  Roy Campanella, Lefty Gomez,  Yogi  Berra,
Ralph  Houk,  Minnie Minoso, Bill Skowron, etc., even Yankee  Stadium.
Elston  Howard was the first African-American to play for the Yankees,
one  of  the last major league clubs to become integrated.  Due to the
presence  of  Yogi  Berra  behind the  plate,  Howard  played  several
different  positions  before he earned a regular job with the  Yankees
and  still  managed  to be a member of four American  League  All-Star
teams in that time.  In 1963 Howard hit a career-high 28 homeruns  and
was  voted  the  American League's Most Valuable  Player--  the  first
black  player to win the honor.  An excellent fielder and hitter,  the
nine-time  All  Star  seemed  to have only one  weakness:  speed.  His
manager  Casey  Stengel reportedly said of Howard:  "I  finally  get a
black  guy  and they give me the only one who can't run."  Howard died
in  1980 at the ago of 50.  A few loose or detached  pages.  Backstrip
lacking, shaken, but all there and quite scarce.              $1000.00


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