| Birth: | Feb. 23, 1929 | | Death: | Dec. 14, 1980 | 
Major League Baseball Player. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, he was a catcher and the first African American to play for the New York Yankees. Prior to his debut for the Yankees on April 14, 1955, he was in the Negro Leagues, playing for the Kansas City Monarchs when assigned to the Yankees' farm team at Muskegon, Michigan. For fourteen seasons, he played with the New York Yankees (1955-66) and the Boston Red Sox (1967-68). Over the coarse of his career, he played in nine All-Star games 1957 to 1965, with 1471 hits, 619 runs scored, 167 homeruns, 762 runs batted, a .274 batting average and a .993 fielding percentage, a major league record from 1967 to 1973. On July 21, 1984, the Yankees retired Howard's uniform number 32 and dedicated a plaque in his honor for their Monument Park at Yankee Stadium. He died of heart failure at 51 in New York City. (bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Search Amazon for Elston Howard | | | Burial:
George Washington Memorial Park
Paramus
Bergen County
New Jersey, USA
Plot: Section DD, Lot 10-AI |
Maintained by: Find A Grave
Record added: Sep 30, 1998
Find A Grave Memorial# 3618 |
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Great Yankee and a good man.RIP.
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Robert N Raphael
Added: May. 23, 2013 |
Happy Belated Birthday, Mr. Howard. My deepest apologies for the tardiness of this post. You were, are, and will always represent everything which is right with the national pastime. Thank you for the countless memories and moments you have and continue t...(Read more)
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Anonymous
Added: Feb. 26, 2013 |
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MFPS
Added: Feb. 23, 2013 |
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