Newark Eagles

American professional Negro League baseball team (1936–1950)

Newark Eagles
Information
League	Independent (1933) Negro National League (II) (1934–1948) Negro American League (1949–1951)
Location	Newark, New Jersey
Ballpark	General Electric Field (Bloomfield, New Jersey) (1934 Dodgers)^[1] Ollemar Stadium (Irvington, New Jersey) (1935 Dodgers)^[2] Ebbets Field (Brooklyn) (1935 Eagles)^[3] Ruppert Stadium (Newark) (1936–1948) Buffalo Stadium (Houston) (1949–1950)
Established	1933 (est. 1936 through merger)
Disbanded	1950
Nickname(s)	Newark Dodgers* (1933–1935) Brooklyn Eagles* (1935) *merged 1935 Newark Eagles (1936–1948) Houston Eagles (1949–1950) New Orleans Eagles (1951)
League titles	1946
Negro World Series championships	1946

The Newark Eagles were a professional Negro league baseball team which played in the Negro National League from 1936 to 1948. They were owned by Abe and Effa Manley.^[4]

History

Formation

The Newark Eagles were formed in 1936 when the Newark Dodgers, established in 1933, merged with the Brooklyn Eagles, established in 1935. Abe Manley and his wife Effa Manley, owners and founders of the Brooklyn Eagles, purchased the Newark Dodgers franchise and combined the teams' assets and player rosters.^[5] Charles Tyler, the previous owner of the Dodgers, signed the team over in exchange for cancellation of an approximately $500 debt that Tyler owed Abe Manley.^[6]

Team management was left to Effa, making the Eagles the third professional baseball team owned and operated by a woman. The first such team was the St. Louis Cardinals, which was owned by Helene Hathaway Britton from 1911 to 1917, and the second such team was the Indianapolis ABCs who were owned by Olivia Taylor from 1922 to 1926.^[7] The Eagles shared Ruppert Stadium with the minor league Newark Bears.

The Eagles were to (black) Newark what the Dodgers were to Brooklyn.
— Eagles star Max Manning

Decline and demise

After the close of the 1948 season, in the aftermath of Jackie Robinson's successful integration of Major League Baseball a year earlier, the Negro National League contracted and merged into the Negro American League. The Eagles were sold and moved to Houston, Texas for the 1949 season,^[5] where they became known as the Houston Eagles, part of the NAL's western division. Two years later they again relocated, this time to New Orleans. The New Orleans Eagles lasted one year before folding after the 1951 season.^[8]^: 5

Negro World Series champions

Under Effa Manley's guidance, the 1946 team won the Negro World Series, upsetting the Kansas City Monarchs in a 7-game series.^[5]

Players

Baseball Hall of Famers

Newark Eagles Hall of Famers
Inductee	Position	Tenure	Inducted
Ray Dandridge	3B	1934–1938 1942, 1944	1987
Leon Day	P	1937–1939 1941–1943, 1946	1995
Larry Doby	CF	1942–1944 1945–1947	1998
Monte Irvin	LF	1938–1942 1945–1948	1973
Biz Mackey	C	1939–1942 1945–1947	2006
Mule Suttles	1B	1936–1940 1942–1944)	2006
Willie Wells	SS	1937–1939	1997
Effa Manley	Owner	1935–1948	2006

Notable alumni

Don Newcombe (1944–1945) 4 x MLB All Star; 1949 Rookie of the year; 1956 Cy Young Award; 1956 NL Most Valuable Player

References

^ "1934 Newark Dodgers". Negro Leagues Data Base. Seamheads.com. Retrieved 15 October 2022.
^ "1935 Newark Dodgers". Negro Leagues Data Base. Seamheads.com. Retrieved 15 October 2022.
^ "Ebbets Field". RetroSeasons.com. Retrieved 8 August 2022.
^ Overmyer, James (1998), Queen of the Negro Leagues: Effa Manley and the Newark Eagles, Scarecrow Press
^ ^a ^b ^c "Negro Leagues Baseball eMuseum: Team Profiles: Newark Eagles". www.coe.ksu.edu.
^ Newman, Roberta J.; Rosen, Joel Nathan (2014). Black Baseball, Black Business: Race Enterprise and the Fate of the Segregated Dollar. Univ. Press of Mississippi. ISBN 9781626742253. Retrieved 30 May 2018.
^ "Forgotten Heroes: Charles Isham "C.I." Taylor" (PDF). Center for Negro League Baseball Research. Retrieved February 18, 2021.
^ "Negro American League Standings (1937-1962)" (PDF). Center for Negro League Baseball Research. Retrieved July 7, 2019.

Newark Eagles

Operated 1933–1951
Established via merge of Newark Dodgers and Brooklyn Eagles in 1936
Also know as Houston Eagles and New Orleans Eagles
Based in Brooklyn, New York, Newark, New Jersey, Houston, Texas and New Orleans, Louisiana

Franchise

Ballparks

Brooklyn: Ebbets Field
Newark: General Electric Field
Ollemar Stadium
Ruppert Stadium
Houston: Buffalo Stadium

League affiliations

Negro National League (II)
Negro American League

Hall of Famers

Negro World Series
championships (1)

1946

League pennants (1)

Negro National League: 1946

Other play-off
appearances

1939
1947

Seasons (20)
1930s	1933 (ND) 1934 (ND) 1935 (ND) 1935 (BE) 1936 1937 1938 1939
1940s	1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949
1950s	1950 1951 · 1952 · 1953 · 1954 · 1955 · 1956 · 1957 · 1958 · 1959

Category

v t e Newark Eagles 1946 Negro World Series champions
Jimmy Boyd Cecil Cole Johnny Davis Leon Day Larry Doby Charles England Benny Felder Oscar Givens Bob Harvey Fred Hobgood Leniel Hooker Cal Irvin Monte Irvin Clarence Isreal Rufus Lewis Max Manning Charlie Parks Pat Patterson Warren Peace Lennie Pearson Charles Ruffin Skeeter Watkins Jimmy Wilkes Robert Williams
Manager Biz Mackey

v t e Negro National League (1933–1948)
Teams	Bacharach Giants (1934) Baltimore Black Sox (1933–1934) Baltimore Elite Giants (1933–1948) Cole's American Giants (1933–1935) Cleveland Red Sox (1934) Columbus Blue Birds/Akron Black Tyrites/Cleveland Giants (1933) Indianapolis ABCs(II)/Detroit Stars (II) (1933) Harrisburg–St. Louis Stars (1943) (Washington) Homestead Grays (1934–1948) New York Black Yankees (1936–1948) New York Cubans (1935–1936, 1939–1948) Newark Eagles (1934–1948) Philadelphia Stars (1934–1948) Pittsburgh Crawfords (1933–1938) Washington Black Senators (1938)
Years in parentheses are years as a full member in the Negro National League. Years as an associate team are not noted.

Negro National League (1933–1948)

Teams

Bacharach Giants (1934)
Baltimore Black Sox (1933–1934)
Baltimore Elite Giants (1933–1948)
Cole's American Giants (1933–1935)
Cleveland Red Sox (1934)
Columbus Blue Birds/Akron Black Tyrites/Cleveland Giants (1933)
Indianapolis ABCs(II)/Detroit Stars (II) (1933)
Harrisburg–St. Louis Stars (1943)
(Washington) Homestead Grays (1934–1948)
New York Black Yankees (1936–1948)
New York Cubans (1935–1936, 1939–1948)
Newark Eagles (1934–1948)
Philadelphia Stars (1934–1948)
Pittsburgh Crawfords (1933–1938)
Washington Black Senators (1938)

Years in parentheses are years as a full member in the Negro National League. Years as an associate team are not noted.

v t e Negro American League (1937–1962)
Pre-integration (1937–1948)	Atlanta Black Crackers/Indianapolis ABCs (IV) (1938–1939) Birmingham Black Barons (1937–1938, 1940–1962) Chicago American Giants (1937–1952) Cincinnati Tigers (1937) Cincinnati/Cleveland/Louisville Buckeyes (1942–1950) Detroit Stars (III) (1937) Indianapolis Athletics (1937) Cincinnati/Indianapolis Clowns (1943–1954) Toledo/Indianapolis Crawfords (1939–1940) Jacksonville Red Caps/Cleveland Bears (1938–1942) Kansas City Monarchs (1937–1962) Memphis Red Sox (1937–1959) St. Louis Stars (II) (1937) Indianapolis ABCs (II)/New Orleans–St. Louis Stars (1938–1941)
Post-integration (1949–1962)	Baltimore Elite Giants (1949–1951) Detroit Stars/Clowns/Detroit–New Orleans Stars (1954–1960) Houston/New Orleans Eagles (1949–1951) Louisville Clippers (1954) Mobile Havana Cuban Giants (1957) New Orleans Crescent Stars (1957) Newark Indians (1959) New York Cubans (1949–1950) Philadelphia Stars (1949–1952) Raleigh Tigers (1959–1962)
Years in parentheses are years as a full member in the Negro American League. Years as an associate team are not noted.

Negro league baseball

Players

Post-season

International competitions

Teams

Leagues

Major leagues	Negro National League (I) Eastern Colored League American Negro League East–West League Negro Southern League (I) Negro National League (II) Negro American League
Proto-leagues	Southern League of Colored Base Ballists (1886) National Colored Base Ball League (1887) International League of Independent Professional Base Ball Clubs (1906) National Association of Colored Baseball Clubs of the United States and Cuba (1907–1909)
Minor leagues	Negro Southern League (1920–1936) Texas Colored League (1919–1931) Negro American Association (1939) Negro Major League (1942) United States League (1945–1946)
Post-integration	Negro Southern League (1945–1951) West Coast Negro Baseball Association (1946) Negro American Association (1948–1949) Negro American League (1951–1960)