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Tweet Share Some 3,400 Black athletes played in the Negro Leagues from 1920 to 1948, but it took 100 years for Major League Baseball to recognize them as major-league-caliber players and to enter their achievements in the historical record. Author Andrea Williams loves the sport, but early on, she found herself even more curious about the business that makes it work. Her curiosity led her to discover a little-known Black American woman named Effa Manley, the co-owner and business manager of the Negro Leaguesâ Newark Eagles. Williamsâ new nonfiction middle-grades book, Baseballâs Leading Lady: Effa Manley and the Rise and Fall of the Negro Leagues, shows Manley as a pioneer who understood the value of the leagues, while others insisted it was inferior. ....