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Newark Eagles
Seasons 1935-1948 (14 seasons)

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Teams New York Newark Eagles History Seasons

Recap

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. 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.

Team management was left to Effa, making the Eagles the second professional baseball team owned and operated by a woman. The first such team was the Indianapolis ABCs who were owned by Olivia Taylor from 1922 to 1926. 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, 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.

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1948 Newark Eagles Season
1948 Newark Eagles
29-28 (.509)
Missed Postseason
1947 Newark Eagles Season
1947 Newark Eagles
50-38 (.567)
Missed Postseason
1946 Newark Eagles Season
1946 Newark Eagles
50-20 (.708)
Won Negro World Series
1945 Newark Eagles Season
1945 Newark Eagles
26-22 (.542)
Missed Postseason
1944 Newark Eagles Season
1944 Newark Eagles
27-35 (.435)
Missed Postseason
1943 Newark Eagles Season
1943 Newark Eagles
26-32 (.448)
Missed Postseason
1942 Newark Eagles Season
1942 Newark Eagles
28-30 (.484)
Missed Postseason
1941 Newark Eagles Season
1941 Newark Eagles
27-23 (.539)
Missed Postseason
1940 Newark Eagles Season
1940 Newark Eagles
26-21 (.552)
Missed Postseason
1939 Newark Eagles Season
1939 Newark Eagles
33-22 (.598)
Lost NNL Playoffs
1938 Newark Eagles Season
1938 Newark Eagles
23-30 (.434)
Missed Postseason
1937 Newark Eagles Season
1937 Newark Eagles
36-22 (.617)
Missed Postseason
1936 Newark Eagles Season
1936 Newark Eagles
27-31 (.466)
Missed Postseason
1935 Brooklyn Eagles Season
1935 Brooklyn Eagles
32-31 (.508)
Missed Postseason

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