The Newark Eagles were a professional Negro league baseball team which played in the Negro National League from 1936 to 1948 . They were owned by Abe and Effa Manley .
6-803: The Newark Eagles were formed in 1936 when the Newark Dodgers , established in 1933, merged with the Brooklyn Eagles , established in 1935. Abe Manley and his wife Effa Manley , owners and founders of the Brooklyn Eagles, purchased the Newark Dodgers franchise and combined the teams' assets and player rosters. Charles Tyler, the previous owner of the Dodgers, signed the team over in exchange for cancellation of an approximately $ 500 debt that Tyler owed Abe Manley. Team management
12-679: The 1951 season. Under Effa Manley's guidance, the 1946 team won the Negro World Series , upsetting the Kansas City Monarchs in a 7-game series. Abe Manley Abraham Lincoln Manley (December 22, 1885 – December 9, 1952) was an American Negro league baseball executive. He co-owned the Newark Eagles baseball franchise in the Negro leagues with his wife, Effa Manley , from 1935 to 1946. Manley
18-797: The Dodgers were to Brooklyn. After the close of the 1948 season, in the aftermath of Jackie Robinson 's successful integration of Major League Baseball a year earlier, the Negro National League contracted and merged into the Negro American League . The Eagles were sold and moved to Houston, Texas for the 1949 season, where they became known as the Houston Eagles , part of the NAL's western division. Two years later they again relocated, this time to New Orleans. The New Orleans Eagles lasted one year before folding after
24-588: The Eagles in 1936 and 1938. He died in Germantown, Pennsylvania on December 9, 1952, roughly two weeks before what would have been his 67th birthday. He was buried at St. Madeleine Sophie Catholic Church there in the city. Manley was among the 94 Negro league figures on the Baseball Hall of Fame ballot in 2006 , but was not selected, although his wife Effa became the first woman to be inducted into
30-467: Was born in Hertford, North Carolina on December 22, 1885. He met his wife, Effa , at a New York Yankees game in 1935, and involved her in the operation of his club. Manley bought the Brooklyn Eagles and Newark Dodgers and merged them into the Newark Eagles in 1936 . An active owner, Manley also served as vice president and treasurer of the Negro National League at one point and also managed
36-553: Was left to Effa, making the Eagles the third professional baseball team owned and operated by a woman. The first such team was the St. Louis Cardinals , which was owned by Helene Hathaway Britton from 1911 to 1917, and the second such team was the Indianapolis ABCs who were owned by Olivia Taylor from 1922 to 1926. The Eagles shared Ruppert Stadium with the minor league Newark Bears . The Eagles were to (black) Newark what
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