Queen of the Negro Leagues: Eleventh Post (Suppositions)
The last few pages of the book (not counting appendixes) raise some interesting questions about what could have been. The image of Effa sitting down to a meeting with a group of white men did not seem as forward thinking in how it was phrased, though. Overmyer describes her with all the paperwork of a minor league owner sitting down with male owners who ostensibly have no more advantages than she does, yet still he sees them not being inclined to take her seriously. If baseball could have been able to accept black owners and managers (which it clearly could not at the time), why couldn't they have accepted a woman in any of those positions? It seems every bit as unlikely, and yet is not given the benefit of even being imagined. That's really very sad.
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