The most famous woman in baseball
Effa Manley and the Negro Leagues
1st ed.
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Author
Publication
2011 - Potomac Books, Washington, D.C, District of Columbia
Language
English
Word Count
56,750 words, Guess
Page Count
227 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivemostfamouswomani0000luke
- ISBN-139781597975469
- ISBN-10159797546X
- Library of Congress Control Number2010050944
- OCLC Control Number650217413
and 2 more
- Better World Books9781597975469
- Open LibraryOL25030547M
Classifications
- DDC796.357092
- DDCB
- LCCGV865.M325 L85 2011
and 1 more
- LCCGV865
Alternate Titles
- Effa Manley and the Negro Leagues
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.
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