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Elston and Me

The Story of the First Black Yankee

By: Arlene Howard,Ralph Wimbish

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Elston and Me

The Story of the First Black Yankee

By: Arlene Howard,Ralph Wimbish

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.

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University of Missouri Press

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082626350X

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9780826263506

Elston

The Story of the First African-American Yankee

By: Arlene Howard,Ralph Wimbish

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Elston

The Story of the First African-American Yankee

By: Arlene Howard,Ralph Wimbish

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.

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247

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1493029010

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9781493029013

Heroes

Stories of Sports, Courage and Class

By: Ralph Wimbish

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Heroes

Stories of Sports, Courage and Class

By: Ralph Wimbish

What makes HEROES unique is that author Ralph Wimbish puts himself into many of his stories, a perspective we do not often see in sports writing today. Wimbish's recollections of the sports figures he met as a youngster and later in a 37-year career as a newspaperman make for riveting reading. His father was Dr. Ralph M. Wimbish, a prominent figure in the NAACP's efforts to rid the South of racial discrimination in the late '50s and early '60s. Wimbish the writer has some interesting observations and previously untold stories about Black athletes such as Jackie Robinson, Curt Flood, Elston Howard, Tiger Woods and others. HEROES is a collection of stories about stories - sitting with 1956 perfect-game pitcher Don Larsen while watching David Cone's 1999 perfect game is a perfect example. These are stories you wish you had been able to read earlier. Now you can.

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202

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Palmetto Publishing

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1649907265

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9781649907264

Season of Glory

By: Ralph Houk

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Season of Glory

By: Ralph Houk

Baseball books are always in season, and this year's winner is Season of Glory, the amazing saga of the 1961 New York Yankees. Manager Ralph Houk and bestselling sports writer Robert W. Creamer recall the breathless and unforgettable moments of this ever-popular team.

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356

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0671674110

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9780671674113

Satan in the Dance Hall

Rev. John Roach Straton, Social Dancing, and Morality in 1920s New York City

By: Ralph G. Giordano

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Satan in the Dance Hall

Rev. John Roach Straton, Social Dancing, and Morality in 1920s New York City

By: Ralph G. Giordano

Satan in the Dance Hall explores the overwhelming popularity of social dancing and its close relationship to America's rapidly changing society in the 1920s. The book focuses on the fiercely contested debate over the morality of social dancing in New York City, led by moral reformers and religious leaders like Rev. John Roach Straton. Fed by the firm belief that dancing was the leading cause of immorality in New York, Straton and his followers succeeded in enacting municipal regulations on social dancing and moral conduct within the more than 750 public dance halls in New York City. Ralph G. Giordano conveys an easy to read and full picture of life in the Jazz Age, incorporating important events and personalities such as the Flu Epidemic, the Scopes Monkey Trial, Prohibition, Flappers, Gangsters, Texas Guinan, and Charles Lindbergh, while simultaneously describing how social dancing was a hugely prominent cultural phenomenon, one closely intertwined with nearly every aspect of American society fromthe Great War to the Great Depression. With a bibliography, an index, and over 35 photos, Satan in the Dance Hall presents an interdisciplinary study of social dancing in New York City throughout the decade.

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305

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Scarecrow Press

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0810863634

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9780810863637

Elston

The Story of the First African-American Yankee

By: Arlene Howard,Ralph Wimbish

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The Story of the First African-American Yankee

By: Arlene Howard,Ralph Wimbish

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Rowman & Littlefield

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Elston and Me

The Story of the First Black Yankee

By: Arlene Howard,Ralph Wimbish

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The Story of the First Black Yankee

By: Arlene Howard,Ralph Wimbish

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University of Missouri Press

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