#Shortstops: Another view of Effa
“When I learned Aunt Effa was inducted into The Baseball Hall of Fame, I thought the Museum is the proper place for the picture to be housed and displayed,” she wrote. “It’s not baseball related, but it is Effa Manley as a beautiful young woman around 17 years old.”
Moore ended up donating a photo of Manley that was accessioned by the Museum, filling a void in the Hall of Famer’s file. The archive contained a few photos of Manley in her later years, when she was already in the full swing of helping the Negro Leagues become a major sporting association in America. But this addition paints a more complete picture of her life, tracing closer to her beginnings as a bubbly and ambitious up-and-comer.
The Museum’s photo archive team hopes to receive more unprompted correspondence from potential donors to fill out their Hall of Famer files.
Matt Kelly was the communications specialist at the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum
Photo Donations
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Online Photo Exhibits
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A Snapshot of the photograph collection

Reproductions
To the topThe National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum features a collection of nearly 250,000 photographs like this one. Reproductions are available for purchase. To purchase a reprint of this photograph or others from the Photo Archive collections, please call (607) 547-0375 or email jhorne@baseballhall.org. Hall of Fame members receive a 10-percent discount.
More Photos
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Dean O. Cochran, Jr. Photograph Archives

Conlon photos become truly timeless
