Negro Leaguers and the HOF

[foreverfree]

Here we go again...

http://delawareonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/2006020 3/SPORTS/602030337/1002

John

 

[Bear-Arms]

I was watching Chicago SportsNet, most of the discussion was about Minnie Minoso, but one of the sport writers said it seemed a little unfair to players like Bert Blyleven and Goose Gossage to let in 17(?) more players in 1 vote. The panel of the 3 writers even admitted that it was just a PR move.
Edited by: Bear-Arms

 

[foreverfree]

I was watching Chicago SportsNet, most of the discussion was about Minnie Minoso, but one of the sport writers said it seemed a little unfair to players like Bert Blyleven and Goose Gossage to let in 17(?) more players in 1 vote. The panel of the 3 writers even admitted that it was just a PR move.

Not all of them are players. And not all of them are men.

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news?slug=ap-halloffame&prov=ap& type=lgns

Effa Manley, co-owner of the Newark Eagles, was very light skinned, almost white. I saw her picture in the women in baseball exhibit at the HOF last October. Now she'll get a plaque there.

Eighteen enshrinees (counting Bruce Sutter) in one year shatters a 60 year old record for Cooperstown, a feat that deserves a very big asterisk. All because America's racial guilt trip goes on...

John

 

[Bart]

Effa Manley, co-owner of the Newark Eagles, was very light skinned, almost white. I saw her picture in the women in baseball exhibit at the HOF last October.

John

More Negro League nonsense. Effa Manley? Marge Schott is a thousand times more deserving. She at least owned a Major League Baseball Team for fifteen years.She had the courage to say things that weren't politically correct. She paid a heavy price. Love her or hate her, she had more cajones than her fellow owners.


Wikipedia:On May 18, 1994,Schott was again caught up in controversy saying that she didn't want her players to wear earrings saying that "only fruits wear earrings."

 

[Colonel_Reb]

One of the big networks said last night that Effa Manley was all white, she just didn't want people to go crazy because she was married to a black man back then. What a joke the HOF has become!

 

[speedster]

Too much.Why don't they save some time and energy and elect every last Negro-Leaguer who put on a uniform.I believe J.B.Cash had an article written about the lack of verifiable stats in this so-called league.

 

[Deacon]

link


Effa Is black. You can tell just by looking at her facial features.

Anybody who calls that woman white must be blind. Edited by: Deacon

 

[Deacon]

Under her management, the Newark Eagles won the Negro World Series in 1946, but soon after Jackie Robinson broke the color line in 1947, Manley lost the services of Larry Doby, Monte Irvin, and Don Newcombe. She spoke out against the raiding of Negro League teams by major league clubs without compensation, but despite her efforts, the Eagles had to disband in 1948.

It seems she was against MLB letting in Negroes. She calls it raiding, society calls it enrichment for the white baseball folk.

According to Monte Irvin, Manley provided the Eagles with an air-conditioned, $15,000 Flexible Clipper bus, a first for the Negro Leagues. Worried about what her players would do for employment during the offseason, she and Abe sponsored a team in the Puerto Rican winter leagues.

Manley served as the treasurer of the Newark chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and often used Eagles games to promote civic causes. In 1939, Manley held an "Anti-Lynching Day" at Ruppert Stadium.

Several stories about her have become part of Negro League folklore. One such tale is of her demanding that Terris McDuffie be the starting pitcher for a certain game because she wanted to show him off to the women of her social club. Another had her giving signs to players by crossing and uncrossing her legs to signal bunts.

Yeah, she's worthy of being inducted into the Baseball HOF!

Spread eagled means hit and run
Crossing your legs means bunt

What an innovator!Edited by: Deacon

 

[foreverfree]

link


Effa Is black. You can tell just by looking at her facial features.

Anybody who calls that woman white must be blind.

Here's a later picture of Effa with Don Newcombe.

http://delawareonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/2006022 8/SPORTS01/602280338/1002/SPORTS


John