{"id":17159,"date":"2011-10-21T03:34:38","date_gmt":"2011-10-21T03:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=17159"},"modified":"2014-10-17T14:45:13","modified_gmt":"2014-10-17T14:45:13","slug":"she-just-loved-baseball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=17159","title":{"rendered":"She Just Loved Baseball"},"content":{"rendered":"

She Just Loved Baseball<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Black Athlete Sports Network<\/a>
\n2010-02-28<\/p>\n

Bill Carroll<\/strong><\/p>\n

NEW YORK\u2014Effa Manley<\/a> was seemingly yet another “lost” pioneer in Negro Leagues Baseball<\/a> before being posthumously honored in 2006 with induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame<\/a>.<\/p>\n

She was part of a class of players and executives selected by a special committee chaired by former baseball commissioner Fay Vincent<\/a>. But a plaque for the only woman inducted in the Hall of Fame barely touches the surface of an often controversial life.<\/p>\n

Manley was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania<\/a>. Her mother, Bertha Ford Brooks, was of German and East-Indian descent. Bertha, who was a seamstress, gave birth to Effa after becoming pregnant by her wealthy White employer, John M. Bishop.<\/p>\n

Bertha’s husband, Benjamin Brooks, who was Black, sued Bishop and received a settlement of $10,000 before he and Bertha divorced.\u00a0 Bertha later remarried, and Effa was raised in a household with a Black stepfather and Black half-siblings.<\/p>\n

Inheriting somewhat dark skin from her mother, she chose to live as a Black person, leading most people to assume her stepfather was her biological father and to classify her as Black.
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\nAfter graduation from high school in Philadelphia, she moved to New York<\/a> to work in the millinery<\/a> business. She met Abe Manley<\/a>, an African-American man 24 years older than she, at the 1932 World Series at Yankee Stadium<\/a>, where she had gone to see her favorite player, Babe Ruth<\/a>…<\/p>\n

…The Newark Eagles<\/a> were founded in 1936 when the Newark Dodgers merged with the Brooklyn Eagles. The Eagles sported the likes of Hall-of-Famers Larry Doby<\/a>, Monte Irvin<\/a>, Ray Dandridge<\/a>, Leon Day<\/a>, and Willie Wells<\/a>.\u00a0 The Eagles shared Ruppert Stadium<\/a> with the Newark Bears, beginning in 1936…<\/p>\n

…In addition to managing her baseball team, Manley was also a social activist for Civil rights. She organized a boycott of Harlem<\/a> stores when they wouldn’t hire Black salesclerks. It took only six weeks for the stores to give in.<\/p>\n

As a result, one year after the boycott, 300 stores employed Blacks. She held an “Anti-Lynching<\/a> Day” at Ruppert Stadium and was treasurer for the Newark<\/a> chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People<\/a> (NAACP)…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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