American professional Negro League baseball team (1936–1950)
Newark Eagles
Information
League
Independent (1933)
Negro National League (II) (1934–1948)
Negro American League (1949–1951)
Location
Newark, New Jersey
Ballpark
General Electric Field (Bloomfield, New Jersey) (1934 Dodgers)[1]
Ollemar Stadium (Irvington, New Jersey) (1935 Dodgers)[2]
Ebbets Field (Brooklyn) (1935 Eagles)[3]
Ruppert Stadium (Newark) (1936–1948)
Buffalo Stadium (Houston) (1949–1950)
Established
1933 (est. 1936 through merger)
Disbanded
1950
Nickname(s)
Newark Dodgers* (1933–1935)
Brooklyn Eagles* (1935)
*merged 1935
Newark Eagles (1936–1948)
Houston Eagles (1949–1950)
New Orleans Eagles (1951)
League titles
1946
Negro World Series championships
1946
The Newark Eagles were a professional Negro league baseball team which played in the Negro National League from 1936 to 1948. They were owned by Abe and Effa Manley.[4]
^"1934 Newark Dodgers". Negro Leagues Data Base. Seamheads.com. Retrieved 15 October 2022.
^"1935 Newark Dodgers". Negro Leagues Data Base. Seamheads.com. Retrieved 15 October 2022.
^"Ebbets Field". RetroSeasons.com. Retrieved 8 August 2022.
^Overmyer, James (1998), Queen of the Negro Leagues: Effa Manley and the Newark Eagles, Scarecrow Press
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