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Seasons 1935-1948 (14 seasons)

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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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Year	Season	League	Team	W	L	Pct	GB	Standings	Playoffs	Manager	Attendance	Stadium	Berth	Champ
1948	1948	NNL	Newark Eagles	29	28	.509		3rd	Missed Postseason	William Bell		Ruppert Stadium (Newark, NJ)
1947	1947	NNL	Newark Eagles	50	38	.567		2nd	Missed Postseason	Biz Mackey		Ruppert Stadium (Newark, NJ)
1946	1946	NNL	Newark Eagles	50	20	.708		1st	Won Negro World Series	Biz Mackey		Ruppert Stadium (Newark, NJ)	-1	1
1945	1945	NNL	Newark Eagles	26	22	.542		2nd	Missed Postseason	Willie Wells Biz Mackey		Ruppert Stadium (Newark, NJ)
1944	1944	NNL	Newark Eagles	27	35	.435		5th	Missed Postseason	Mule Suttles		Ruppert Stadium (Newark, NJ)
1943	1943	NNL	Newark Eagles	26	32	.448		4th	Missed Postseason	Mule Suttles		Ruppert Stadium (Newark, NJ)
1942	1942	NNL	Newark Eagles	28	30	.484		3rd	Missed Postseason	Willie Wells		Ruppert Stadium (Newark, NJ)
1941	1941	NNL	Newark Eagles	27	23	.539		3rd	Missed Postseason	Biz Mackey		Ruppert Stadium (Newark, NJ)
1940	1940	NNL	Newark Eagles	26	21	.552		3rd	Missed Postseason	Dick Lundy Biz Mackey		Ruppert Stadium (Newark, NJ)
1939	1939	NNL	Newark Eagles	33	22	.598		2nd	Lost NNL Playoffs	Dick Lundy		Ruppert Stadium (Newark, NJ)	-3
1938	1938	NNL	Newark Eagles	23	30	.434		5th	Missed Postseason	Abe Manley Dick Lundy		Ruppert Stadium (Newark, NJ)
1937	1937	NNL	Newark Eagles	36	22	.617		2nd	Missed Postseason	Tex Burnett Dick Lundy		Ruppert Stadium (Newark, NJ)
1936	1936	NNL	Newark Eagles	27	31	.466		4th	Missed Postseason	William Bell Abe Manley		Ruppert Stadium (Newark, NJ)
1935	1935	NNL	Brooklyn Eagles	32	31	.508		5th	Missed Postseason	Ben Taylor George Giles		Ebbets Field (Brooklyn, NY)

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