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| Title Statement | In a league of her own: a novel / Kaia Alderson. |
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| Author | Alderson, Kaia |
| Publication | New York: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers,[2024]©2024 |
| Edition | First edition. |
| Extent of Item | 338 pages ; |
| ISBN | 9780063228382 (trade paperback) |
| Other Number | pr07447919 |
| Summary | 1930s, New York City. An ambitious Harlem woman's husband upends her social climbing when he buys a Negro Leagues baseball team and appoints her as the team's business manager. Overnight, Effa Manley goes from 125th Street's civil rights champion to an interloper in the boys' club that is professional baseball. Navigating her way through gentlemen's agreement contracts, the very public flirtatious antics of superstar Satchel Paige, and a sports world that would much rather see this woman back in her "place" at home, Effa ultimately whips her team, the Newark Eagles, into the Negro Leagues Champions of 1946. But how long will she get to enjoy the fruits of her success before Major League Baseball tears it all apart? Based on the incredible life of Effa Manley, an unforgettable and inspiring story about a woman with a dream who wound up with a baseball team. |
| Subjects & Genres | |
| By Topic | Baseball players--Fiction |
| Baseball teams--Fiction | |
| Negro leagues--Fiction | |
| Women baseball team owners--Fiction | |
| By Name | Manley, Effa,1897-1981 |
| Newark Eagles (Baseball team)--Fiction | |
| By Location | New York (N.Y.)--Fiction |
| By Genre | Historical fiction |
| Biographical fiction | |
| Sports fiction | |
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