Title: The most famous woman in baseball
Description: 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.
Subjects: Newark Eagles (Baseball team), African American business enterprises, Baseball, Baseball team owners, Negro leagues, Women baseball team owners, Biography, History, SPORTS & RECREATION, Sports, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY, African American baseball team owners, African American baseball managers, Baseball teams, New jersey, biography
Places: United States
People: Effa Manley (1897-1981)