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Baseball's leading lady : Effa Manley and the rise and fall of the Negro Leagues / Andrea Williams.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Roaring Brook Press, 2021Copyright date: ©2021Edition: First editionDescription: viii, 328 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781250623720
  • 1250623723
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
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.
Summary: "The true story of Effa Manley, the first and only woman in the Baseball Hall of Fame, and her ownership role in the Negro Leagues leading up to the integration of Major League Baseball"-- Provided by publisher.Summary: 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
List(s) this item appears in: Women's Biographies (Kids) | Women's History Month (Youth)
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

For fans of Hidden Figures and Steve Sheinkin's Undefeated , Andrea Williams's Baseball's Leading Lady is the powerful true story of Effa Manley, the first and only woman inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.

Before Jackie Robinson broke Major League Baseball's color barrier in 1947, Black athletes played in the Negro Leagues--on teams coached by Black managers, cheered on by Black fans, and often run by Black owners.

Here is the riveting true story of the woman at the center of the Black baseball world: Effa Manley, co-owner and business manager of the Newark Eagles. Elegant yet gutsy, she cultivated a powerhouse team. Yet just as her Eagles reached their pinnacle, so did calls to integrate baseball, a move that would all but extinguish the Negro Leagues.

On and off the field, Effa hated to lose. She had devoted her life to Black empowerment--but in the battle for Black baseball, was the game rigged against her?

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"The true story of Effa Manley, the first and only woman in the Baseball Hall of Fame, and her ownership role in the Negro Leagues leading up to the integration of Major League Baseball"-- Provided by publisher.

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.

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

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