James Overmyer writes and lectures on baseball history, primarily on black baseball. A member of the Negro Leagues Committee of the Society for American Baseball Research, Overmyer is the author of Queen of the Negro Leagues, Black Ball and the Boardwalk, and Cum Posey of the Homestead Grays.
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The first woman inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame, there was no one like Effa Manley in the sports world of the 1930s and 1940s. She was a sophisticated woman who owned a baseball team. She never shrank from going head to head with men, who dominate... SEE MORE