The Most Famous Woman in Baseball: Effa Manley and the Negro Leagues

by Bob Luke (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  2011

  $40.26

  Effa Manley ran the Negro league Newark Eagles that her husband, Abe, owned for roughly a decade. Because of her business acumen, commitment, and larger-than-life personality, she would leave an indelible mark not only on baseball but also on American history. Not only a story of Manley's influence on the baseball world, this book vividly documents Manley's social activism.