Health & Fitness
She Loved Baseball: The Effa Manley Story
Audrey Vernick, author of She Loved Baseball: The Effa Manley Story, will be at the Toms River Library on Thurs Sept 27 at 7 PM.
The final program for Pride and Passion: the African
American Baseball Experience features author Audrey Vernick who will be talking baseball at the Toms River Branch of the Ocean County Library on Thursday September 27 at 7 PM.
Ms Vernick is the author of She Loved Baseball: The Effa Manley Story,
published by Harper Collins. The book is written for children but the story
will appeal to baseball fans of all ages. All are welcome to attend.
Effa Manley became aware of racial prejudice at a
young age, when she was criticized by a school principal for playing with
"those Negroes," who were in fact her darker-skinned siblings. Effa Manley loved baseball but she never dreamed she would someday own a baseball team - or become the first woman inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
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As an adult living in New York City she organized the
"Citizen's League for Fair Play," demanding businesses hire black
employees. With her husband, she started the Brooklyn Eagles, (later became the
Newark Eagles) part of the Negro National League, She handled the team’s
business and worked to insure that the players were never forgotten. As a social activist, Manley worked in the civil rights movement and wrote numerous letters to the National Baseball Hall of Fame resulting in the induction of African American players. In 2006 Effa Manley became the first woman and only woman to be elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.
Audrey Vernick is the author of several books for children,
including Is Your Buffalo Ready For Kindergarten? and She Loved Baseball. The Effa Manley Story as well as Bark Tim: A True Story of Friendship, cowritten with her sister Ellen Glassman Gidaro. Audrey lives with her family in Ocean, New Jersey. Her latest book is Brothers at Bat, the story of the 12 Acerra brothers who formed their own semiprofessional baseball team in Long Branch, NJ, during the 1930s.
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Pride and Passion: The African-American
Baseball Experience, a traveling exhibition for libraries, was
organized by the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, Cooperstown, New
York, and the American Library Association Public Programs Office, Chicago. The
traveling exhibition has been made possible by a major grant from the National
Endowment for the Humanities: great ideas brought to life.
