Female Owner

I am very proud to discuss the life of Effa Manley. She was the first African American Female to own a Negro League team. She broke not only the color barrier, but she became a new icon for women. Effa gave the black woman a chance to dream big and to understand their true potential in life. Women of her time were only used to raise children and clean Anglo American houses. She along with her husband Abe Manley orchestrated a new era in baseball with the purchase of the Brooklyn Eagles.