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

Queen of the Negro Leagues: Third Post (Organization)
Ok, the organization in this book is infuriating! More than half of the chapter that I just read had almost nothing to do with the topic at hand. When Overmyer finally got back to the point the information was really interesting, but it took forever to get to that information in the first place! The book almost seems to have an identity crisis. It wants very much to be a biography of Effa Manley and the Newark Eagles (and the table of contents appears to support this), but it reads like academic notes on the history of Negro League baseball (mostly in the 1930s) that no one has edited. Much of it simply doesn't belong in a biography, even one of the Eagles! I really want to like this book, but it's incredibly difficult to get through without getting terribly frustrated!