[Rarebooks] FS: Personal Address Book of the First African-American to play for the New York Yankees

[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 flexible 
cloth 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, Eddie Fisher, Lefty Gomez, Yogi 
Berra, Ralph Houk, Minnie Minoso, Pee Wee Reese, Bill Skowron, etc., 
even Yankee Stadium itselft. 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.         $750.00

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