Comments on: Effa Manley, First Female Hall of Famer

Effa Manley, First Female Hall of Famer

grabbingsand — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 11:03:51 -0800

Effa Manley. Pioneer then. Pioneer still.

By: grabbingsand

grabbingsand — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 11:06:30 -0800

By: terrymiles

terrymiles — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 11:10:50 -0800

Shit! You guys still call blacks negroes? Here in the UK we have to call negroes blacks! Weird? Or should I say strange?

By: davros42

davros42 — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 11:18:15 -0800

So... the first woman in the Baseball Hall of Fame was... manly...

By: beagle

beagle — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 11:18:40 -0800

Terrymiles: "Negro Leagues" is the historic name for the segregated black baseball leagues. That's what they called them back then, as a proper noun, so that's what they're called now. Not weird at all. Or strange.

By: beagle

beagle — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 11:20:55 -0800

grabbingsand, that first link ain't doing it for me, either.

By: SteveInMaine

SteveInMaine — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 11:44:07 -0800

According to Keith Olbermannn, she wasn't black: And today's election also made a Hall of Famer out of Effa Manley... She was the owner of the Newark Eagles of the Negro American League. It sounds almost impossible to believe -- but she too was white -- married to a black man -- and she pretended to be -- as the term was, then, "passed" -- as a light-skinned black.