the first black Yankee

New York Yankee, that is; found the book whilst looking through and weeding sports books.

Elston and me: the story of the first black Yankee. Arlene Howard with Ralph Wimbish. Arlene Howard was his wife. Ralph Wimbish is an interesting person himself.

Inside the book there are pictures; one shows Elston Howard night at Yankee Stadium, on August 29, 1964. I was there. It was a doble-header against the Boston Red Sox. In the bottom of the first inning the first three Yanks got on base (Richardson, Kubek, and Mantle? Maris?). Maybe there was one out. But Joe Pepitone hit a grand slam homerun. The website //www.baseballlibrary.com has Pepi hitting three homeruns. Mickey Mantle tied Babe Ruth career strikeout record of 1,330.