Elston Howard played 15 seasons (1948–1968) for Kansas City Monarchs, NYY and BOS. Career regular-season line: 1,491 hits, 168 home runs and a .274 average. Mountain Arc career, peaking in 1961. Honors: 9× All-Star Selections and 2× Gold Gloves.
Sport-specific career totals from the active profile tables, with VAL shown whenever the sport has a value file.
Career boards only, within MLB
Cross-sport prominence: 94.4th percentile among MLB careers — a within-sport percentile, because career value is not comparable across sports.
Historical franchise
No continuous modern successor — attributed to the franchise itself, never folded into a modern club.
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Players whose careers had the same shape — total value, peak, best three-season stretch, length and when the value came — measured with VAL against their own leagues.
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Fan Rating
Rate Elston Howard — All-Time
14 seasons · peak 12.0 in 1961
VAL (Value Above League) measures each MLB season against that season's league; the dashed line is zero — a season that added nothing above the league's fringe. ● peak · ○ league-best season.
25.4 career wins over 14 seasons · 1 win = 2.61 VAL
Best season · 1961 · +4.6 wins
4.6 of NYY's 109 wins (4%)
Latest season · 1968 · +0.8 wins
0.8 of BOS's 86 wins (1%)
VAL 3.0 measures each part of a MLB player's game in his sport's own currency against what that season's fringe players produced, converted to team wins with rates fitted from every team-season in the encyclopedia. Team wins are the club's actual regular-season wins, counted from pitcher decisions, which can miss a few games; a traded season, or one whose club record is missing, shows no share.
How often Elston Howard led or placed top-ten on a MLB season board, and the shape of the career — computed from the same per-season boards the year pages publish, so every number is checkable.
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league-leading seasons · 1 top-ten finishes
Career arc
Mountain Arc
The classic build → peak → decline arc — rose to a dominant peak, then faded. Peak 1961, 14 rated seasons.
Season boards
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top-ten finishes across the MLB season boards
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