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Source: NPR "All Things Considered"

Roundup

12-31-69

1st Woman Elected into Baseball Hall of Fame [5min]

Effa Manley has become the first woman elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame. Manley is a former executive with the Newark Eagles Negro League team. She co-owned the team with her husband and ran it for more than a decade. Leslie Heaphy, professor of History at Kent State University, talks with Melissa Block.

Read entire article at NPR "All Things Considered"