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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.

In St. Petersburg, starting in the late 1950s, she and my dad, the late Dr. Ralph Wimbish, were on the front lines in the fight for civil rights. She was right there when my dad slammed Major League Baseball for hotel discrimination. She was there when he sued to improve black schools and integrate golf courses. And she was there when my dad led the Webb's City boycott and picketed movie theaters, the Maas Brothers lunch counter and the whites-only Spa Beach. In St. Petersburg, starting in the late 1950s, she and my dad, the late Dr. Ralph Wimbish, were on the front lines in the fight for civil rights. She was right there when my dad slammed Major League Baseball for hotel discrimination. She was there when he sued to improve black schools and integrate golf courses. And she was there when my dad led the Webb's City boycott and picketed movie theaters, the Maas Brothers lunch counter and the whites-only Spa Beach. PHOTO - Times files (1988): In 1988, [C. Bette Wimbish] ran against C.W. Bill Young for Congress. She got about 65,000 votes but lost. PHOTO - Time files (1960): Bette Wimbish lost her campaign in 1960 for the Pinellas County School Board. She went back to college at Florida A&M University a few years later and earned a law degree. PHOTO - Times files (1969): In 1969, Bette Wimbish became the first black person elected to the St. Petersburg City Council. Campaign manager James Sanderlin, left, became the first black person elected countywide in 1972. PHOTO (2) Ran Page 1

PHOTO, Times files (1964): Dr. [Ralph Wimbish] and his wife, Bette, relax at home with their children, from left, [Terry], [Barbara] and Ralph. A year later, Mrs. Wimbish and her two sons moved to Tallahassee temporarily so she could earn a law degree at Florida A&M. Barbara was away at college. Wimbish remained in St. Petersburg. PHOTO, Times files (1964): On June 12, 1964, people picketed Morrison's Cafeteria, 240 Central Ave. In July, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act, desegregating public accommodations. PHOTO, Times files (1961): Lunch counters had just been integrated, and Ralph Wimbish, right, waited to address a meeting of the NAACP at Bethel Metropolitan Baptist Church on Jan. 7, 1961, to call for an effort to register all eligible black voters. PHOTO, Times files (1969): Sixteen months after her husband's death, [Bette Wimbish] is sworn in as a St. Petersburg City Council member, the first black person elected. PHOTO, Times files: Dr. Wimbish grew up in the Gas Plant district, later home to Tropicana Field. PHOTO, Special to the Times: Bette Wimbish earned a law degree at FAMU and passed the Bar in 1968. Ralph Wimbish PHOTO, Times files: On Jan. 3, 1961, Dr. Ralph Wimbish, president of the St. Petersburg branch of the NAACP, was served at the Maas Brothers department store lunch counter in downtown St. Petersburg. That same day, 14 other lunch counters in the greater St. Petersburg area also quietly integrated, ending weeks of sit-ins and picketing.