Baseball's leading lady : Effa Manley and the rise and fall of the Negro Leagues / Andrea Williams.
Before Jackie Robinson broke Major League Baseball's color barrier in 1947, Black athletes plated in the Negro Leagues, on teams coached by Black managers, cheered on by Black fans. Those leagues owed their existence and success to savvy businesspeople like Effa Manley, the Black female co-owner of the Newark Eagles. Manley was the team's business manager, leading her team to win the Negro World Series in 1946. Williams shows how Manley devoted her life to Black empowerment, invested in community programs, and fought for her team's place on an unequal field. -- adapted from jacket
Record details
- ISBN: 9781250866547
- ISBN: 1250866545
- Physical Description: viii, 328 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition: First edition
- Publisher: New York : Roaring Brook Press, 2021.
- Copyright: ©2021
Content descriptions
- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- A rebel is born. Color lines -- Fields of dreams -- Strong arms -- A league of their own -- Negro improvement -- New negroes -- Reversal of fortune -- Fair play -- A winning team. Black in business. King(s) of diamonds -- Born again -- Making moves -- Trouble in paradise -- Speaking up -- Waging war -- Enemies and allies. A change is gonna come. Battle wounds -- Best-laid plans -- Crossing the line -- The thief of New York -- The Negro (Leagues) problem -- Flying high -- Champions at last -- Winning and losing -- The call -- The beginning of the end -- Effa's last stand -- Epilogue.
- Study Program Information Note:
- Accelerated Reader AR MG 8.8 10 512222.
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- Subject:
- Manley, Effa, 1897-1981.
Newark Eagles (Baseball team).
Negro leagues > History.
Baseball > United States > History.
Baseball team owners > United States > Biography.
Women baseball team owners > United States > Biography.
African American women > Biography. - Genre:
- Biographies.
Young adult literature.
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