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How The Other Teams Integrated, Part One: 1947 - by John
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Joe Pepitone, flamboyant Yankees All-Star, dead at 82
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Readers sound off on baseball's race history, housing migrants and N.Y. wind farms – New York Daily News
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Elston Howard: A Yankee Pioneer, News, Scores, Highlights, Stats, and Rumors
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Elston Howard broke the Yankees' color-barrier in 1955 - Sports Illustrated
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Elston Howard (Baseball Catcher) - On This Day
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Yankees legend Elston Howard got start in Negro Leagues
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Mail day from last week! My new obsession: Elston Howard, the first black man to play for the Yankees. : r/baseballcards
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Elston Howard was the first African-American to play for the New York Yankees in 1955. Elston was also the first African-American to win the AL MVP Stock Photo - Alamy
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Teaneck NJ's Elston Howard made history on the New York Yankees
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Integration Pioneers - NLBM
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Elston Howard, Baseball Wiki
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Barrier Breakers
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Remembering Yankees trailblazer Elston Howard, who never got to see his dream of managing in the big leagues - The Athletic
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The Red Sox obtain catcher Elston Howard from the Yankees for cash and two players to be named later, with pitchers Peter Magrini and Ron Klimkowski being sent to New York to