Interview: Andrea Williams, Author of "Baseball's Leading Lady: Effa Manley and the Rise and Fall of the Negro Leagues"

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4.5 • 729 Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

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In this episode, Amira Rose Davis chats with Andrea Williams about her new book "Baseball's Leading Lady: Effa Manley and the Rise and Fall of the Negro Leagues." They discuss Effa's powerful role as co-owner of the Newark Eagles, her foresight of the costs of desegregating baseball, her importance in contemporary conversations about Black institutions and why Andrea wrote this story for young adults. This episode was produced by Tressa Versteeg. Shelby Weldon is our social media and website specialist. Burn It All Down is part of the Blue Wire podcast network.For show notes, transcripts, and more info about BIAD, check out our website: www.burnitalldownpod.comTo help support the Burn It All Down podcast, please consider becoming a patron: www.patreon.com/burnitalldownFor BIAD merchandise: teespring.com/stores/burn-it-all-downFind us on Twitter: twitter.com/BurnItDownPod; Facebook: www.facebook.com/BurnItAllDownPod/; and Instagram: www.instagram.com/burnitalldownpod/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	What's up, y'all?
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0:56.1	As Beaternity, As baseball season is starting, on my minding the Negro Leagues now being considered a major, thinking about women getting into ownership, thinking about a renewed energy towards HBCUs. There was a lot of things I wanted to parse through. And it brought to mind again and
1:02.7	again, Etha Manly. Effa Manley, Newark Eagles owner in the Negro Leagues, a woman who navigated
1:09.8	ownership in a black male sporting world,
1:12.6	who was an absolute warrior for black institutions and black institution building, and she
1:19.6	just kept coming to mind with a lot of these contemporary conversations. Luckily for me, my friend
1:26.3	Andrea Williams just dropped a new book, again, about EFA's life, baseball's leading lady, the rise and fall of the Negro leagues.
1:35.5	And so I thought it was only fitting to call her up to talk about the book and what EFA story can tell us about some of the conversations we're grappling with today.
1:44.6	So welcome to burn it all down.
1:46.9	I'm so happy to be here.
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