Current mood:	drained
Entry tags:	james overmyer, queen of the negro leagues

Queen of the Negro Leagues: Second Post (Scattered)
The beginning of this book is a mess. There's a lot of great information there, but it's presented in a very haphazard way. Rather than starting at the beginning and moving forward from there, Overmyer started in the middle, jumped around a lot, touched the beginning briefly before running off into a long discussion about what race Mrs Manley was before deciding it didn't matter and skipping off to the early-middle of the story again. Now, I found the discussion of Mrs Manley's social and economic activist work very interesting, but I would have loved to have gotten a real picture of her childhood, early jobs and lifestyle and her first marriage, maybe. What happened to her first husband? Did they divorce? How long were they married? How long was she single again before marrying Abe Manley? I really want to hear about the woman herself! Barring that, I want to hear about what she did in and for baseball. What makes her worthy of the hall of fame? I hope the rest of the book is a little more focused and jumps around less!