Tag: Effa Manley

  • The only woman in the National Baseball Hall of Fame had a fascinating — and confusing — past

  • The most powerful woman in baseball

  • She Loved Baseball: The Effa Manley Story Balzer + Bray (an imprint of HarperCollins) 2010-10-19 32 pages 8.5 in (w) x 11 in (h) x 0.25 in (d) Hardcover ISBN: 9780061349201 eBook ISBN: 9780062184801 Audrey Vernick Illustrated by Don Tate Effa always loved baseball. As a young woman, she would go to Yankee Stadium just…

  • Black like her: Is racial identity a state of mind? The Washington Post 2015-06-16 Amy Ellis Nutt, Reporter While people continue to question the motivations behind former NAACP official Rachel Dolezal’s claiming she is black, scientists say identity, even racial identity, doesn’t arise from any single place in the brain. Individuals contain different selves, often…

  • Olbermann Ties Dolezal Race Manipulation to ‘Senseless’ Charleston Shooting Breitbart News 2015-06-18 Trent Baker, Sports Reporter On Thursday’s “Olbermann” on ESPN2, host Keith Olbermann opened his show with a monologue speaking about former Spokane NAACP head Rachel Dolezal, deceased American sports executive and the first woman inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame Effa Manley,…

  • Queen of the Negro Leagues: Effa Manley and the Newark Eagles Scarecrow Press (an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield) January 1998 298 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-1-57886-001-2 eBook ISBN: 978-1-4617-0708-0 James Overmyer, Member Negro Leagues Committee of the Society for American Baseball Research The first woman inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame, there was no…

  • Penny Marshall Directing A Dennis Rodman Documentary + Effa Manley Project In Development Shadow and Act: On Cinema of the African Diaspora 2012-09-25 Courtney Singer Lately, she has been working on a documentary about the basketball player Dennis Rodman, some of which she has been shooting via Skype. That came up because a) Ms. Marshall…

  • She Just Loved Baseball Black Athlete Sports Network 2010-02-28 Bill Carroll NEW YORK—Effa Manley was seemingly yet another “lost” pioneer in Negro Leagues Baseball before being posthumously honored in 2006 with induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame. She was part of a class of players and executives selected by a special committee chaired by…

  • First woman among 17 elected to baseball Hall Associated Press 2006-02-27 TAMPA, Fla.—Effa Manley became the first woman elected to the baseball Hall of Fame when the former Newark Eagles executive was among 17 people from the Negro Leagues and pre-Negro Leagues chosen Monday by a special committee. “This is a historic day at the…

  • Author Talk and Book Signing: Bob Luke National Portrait Gallery Bookstore Eighth and F Streets NW Washington, D.C. 2011-10-19, 18:00-19:00 EDT (Local Time) Bob Luke discusses and signs copies of The Most Famous Woman in Baseball: Effa Manley and the Negro Leagues. Manley’s life played out against the backdrop of the Jim Crow years, when…