Podcast Review: Take Her Out to the Ballgame
The podcast I reviewed was from The Wisdom Project podcast on Soundcloud: Take Her Out to the Ballgame: Effa Manley and Negro League Baseball, 2016 https://soundcloud.com/the-wisdom-project/005-take-her-out-to-the-ballgame-effa-manley-and-negro-league-baseball Topic: Effa Manley and the Negro League This is podcast is an o ral history interview with Effa Manley, the first African American woman to own a professional baseball team. She co-owned the Newark Eagles from the Negro League with her husband Abe Manley. In this episode Effa Manley recounts the importance of Jackie Robinson and the integration of Major League Baseball on the Negro League and how they built up a successful business but, in the end, when the organization dissolved, they lost their players to the Major League Network and they didn’t pay them or even say thank you, as Effa notes. ...