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In a league of her own / Kaia Alderson.

Alderson, Kaia, (author.).

Summary:

"An ambitious Harlem woman's husband upends her social climbing when he buys a Negro Leagues baseball team and appoints her as the team's business manager. Overnight, Effa Manley goes from 125th Street's civil rights champion to an interloper in the boys' club that is professional baseball. Navigating her way through gentlemen's agreement contracts, the very public flirtatious antics of superstar Satchel Paige, and a sports world that would much rather see this woman back in her 'place' at home, Effa ultimately whips her team, the Newark Eagles, into the Negro Leagues Champions of 1946"--Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780063228382
  • ISBN: 0063228386
  • Physical Description: 338 pages ; 21 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2024]
Subject: Manley, Effa, 1897-1981 > Fiction.
Newark Eagles (Baseball team) > Fiction.
Negro leagues > Fiction.
Baseball players > Fiction.
Women baseball team owners > Fiction.
Baseball team owners > Fiction.
Discrimination in sports > Fiction.
African American business enterprises > Fiction.
Baseball stories.
Genre: Historical fiction.
Biographical fiction.
Sports fiction.

Available copies

  • 10 of 15 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
  • 2 of 2 copies available at Iredell County Public Library.

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  • 0 current holds with 15 total copies.
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