Born in 1897 in Philadelphia, Effa Manley was an American baseball executive who co-owned the Newark Eagles of the Negro National League alongside her husband, Abe Manley. In 2006, she became the ...

Effa Manley was a trailblazing baseball executive for the Negro League’s Newark Eagles. Manley, a civil rights activist, is the only woman inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. After high school, ...

A limited series about Effa Manley, aka the “Queen of the Negro Leagues,” is in the works from Alcon Television. The project is based on James Overmyer’s novel “Queen of the Negro Leagues: Effa Manley ...

Children on the streets of Newark, recalls Monte Irvin, one of her players, would see her behind the wheel of her fancy Lincoln Continental and wave Effa Manley through the sunshine. She'd be headed ...

She was sure and confident in everything she did. She was tall, smart, and intimidating, a shrewd businesswoman unafraid to speak her mind. For years I’d recognized Effa Manley for many things: her ...

This is, of course, familiar territory for Marshall, who helmed the 1992 hit A League of Their Own about the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL). Like that film, the Effa Manley ...

It’s April, baseball season is in full swing and this month we’re watching “The League,” which is available to stream on Hulu with a subscription. You can also rent or buy the film on several ...

TO BASEBALL, Effa Manley brought brains and beauty, style and business acumen, nurturing and a competitive attitude as strong as her lacquered red nails – through the 1930s and ’40s she was called The ...

The Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY is full of great players whose names roll off your tongue. Ruth, Cobb, Aaron, Mays, Koufax, Gibson. Then there are those left out due to some form of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. EXCLUSIVE: The remarkable story of Effa Manley, the first and to-date only woman to be elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame, is ...

EXCLUSIVE: The remarkable story of Effa Manley, the first and to-date only woman to be elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame, is headed to the screen. Alcon Television Group has acquired the rights to ...