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In celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Negro Leagues, this bookhonors the life of Effa Manley, the trailblazing female co-owner of baseball’s Newark Eagles. This edition includes new details regarding the Negro Leagues, Manley’s induction into the Hall of Fame, and previously-unknown information about Manley’s childhood and family.
James Overmyer writes and lectures on baseball history, primarily on black baseball. He is a member of the Negro Leagues Committee of the Society for American Baseball Research and was a member of the National Baseball Hall of Fame special committee that elected Manley and other black baseball figures to the Hall. Overmyer is the author of the first edition of Queen of the Negro Leagues (1998), Black Ball and the Boardwalk: The Bacharach Giants of Atlantic City (2014) and Cum Posey of the Homestead Grays: A Biography of the Negro Leagues Owner and Hall of Famer (2020).
Foreword Introduction 1: Introducing Effa 2: Opening (and Closing) in Brooklyn 3: The Team and the Town 4: Getting to Be at Home 5: The Business of Black Baseball 6: The Manleys for Reform 7: World War II, and Other Battles 8: The Championship Season 9: Good-bye to the Queen 10: Still Fighting Appendix A: Effa's Competition-The Other Owners of Black Teams Notes Bibliography Index About the Author