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The most famous woman in baseball : Effa Manley and the Negro Leagues
- Title
- The most famous woman in baseball : Effa Manley and the Negro Leagues / Bob Luke.
- Author
- Luke, Bob
- Publication
- Washington, D.C. : Potomac Books, [2011]
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- Description
- xii, 227 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- From 1936 to 1948, Manley ran the Negro league Newark Eagles that her husband, Abe, owned for roughly a decade. ... Not only a story of Manley's influence on the baseball world, The Most Famous Woman in Baseball vividly documents her social activism. Her life played out against the backdrop of the Jim Crow years, when discrimination forced most of Newark's blacks to live in the Third Ward, where prostitution flourished, housing was among the nation's worst, and only menial jobs were available. Manley and the Eagles gave African Americans a haven, Ruppert Stadium. She also proposed reforms at the Negro leagues' team owners' meetings, marched on picket lines, sponsored charity balls and benefit games, and collected money for the NAACP.-publisher description.
- Alternative Title
- Effa Manley and the Negro Leagues
- Subjects
- African American baseball managers > Biography
- Negro leagues > History
- Manley, Effa, 1897-1981
- Baseball > United States > History
- African American business enterprises
- Baseball team owners > United States > Biography
- African American baseball team owners > Biography
- Women baseball team owners > United States > Biography
- Newark Eagles (Baseball team) History
- Note
- LC copy 2 signed by the author.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- The lady makes a splash -- The Manleys come to baseball -- Abe trades Brooklyn for Newark -- Effa steps up -- Effa comes into her own -- Fireworks -- Cobbling together a lineup -- War comes to Newark -- The Eagles adapt to the war -- Branch Rickey drops the color bar -- A reunited team -- Striving for respectability -- Effa's life after the Eagles.
- Call Number
- Sc E 16-293
- ISBN
- 9781597975469
- 159797546X
- LCCN
- 2010050944
- OCLC
- 650217413
- Author
- Luke, Bob, author.
- Title
- The most famous woman in baseball : Effa Manley and the Negro Leagues / Bob Luke.
- Publisher
- Washington, D.C. : Potomac Books, [2011]
- Edition
- First edition
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Local Note
- Schomburg copy with dust jacket.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 16-293