Professional Baseball Player. Maxwell Cornelius Manning was an American professional baseball pitcher. As a former Negro Leagues pitcher, he was offered a major-league tryout only to have it rescinded because of his race. A 6-foot-4-inch right-hander with a side arm delivery, he was sometimes called "Dr. Cyclops" because of the thick eyeglasses he wore. He signed a contract with the Newark Eagles in 1938 and played with them for 10 years until his career was interrupted on September 1, 1942 with his Army service during World War II. After the war in 1946 and 1947, he had monitory success playing baseball. He pitched the final game of the Negro League World Series in 1946 as Newark defeated the Kansas City Monarchs 3-2. During this time, he was diagnosed with a separated shoulder and with no remedy to correct the problem, his throw was impacted. He toured with Sachel Paige's All-Stars in the late 1940s and also played in leagues in Mexico, Cuba, Venezuela, and Canada in 1954 before retiring from baseball. Before a baseball career, he had attended in 1937 Lincoln University in nearby Oxford, Pennsylvania for one year. Seeking a new career, he enrolled using his benefits of the GI Bill in the New Jersey State Teachers College at Glassboro, graduating in the spring of 1955. After college graduation, he spent the next 28 years as a sixth-grade teacher in Pleasantville, New Jersey. He should be remembered as someone who had strength of character, not only in baseball but also in what he taught in the classroom and what he brought to the community. Airing posthumously on July 4, 2003 on PBS television, he appeared in the episode concerning the 1949 dedication, which was in an era of racial segregation, of the "Pop" Lloyd Baseball Stadium in honor of great Negro League All-Star John Henry "Pop" Lloyd. In 1947 he married Dorothy Winder, the daughter of a postman, and the couple had two sons and two daughters.
Professional Baseball Player. Maxwell Cornelius Manning was an American professional baseball pitcher. As a former Negro Leagues pitcher, he was offered a major-league tryout only to have it rescinded because of his race. A 6-foot-4-inch right-hander with a side arm delivery, he was sometimes called "Dr. Cyclops" because of the thick eyeglasses he wore. He signed a contract with the Newark Eagles in 1938 and played with them for 10 years until his career was interrupted on September 1, 1942 with his Army service during World War II. After the war in 1946 and 1947, he had monitory success playing baseball. He pitched the final game of the Negro League World Series in 1946 as Newark defeated the Kansas City Monarchs 3-2. During this time, he was diagnosed with a separated shoulder and with no remedy to correct the problem, his throw was impacted. He toured with Sachel Paige's All-Stars in the late 1940s and also played in leagues in Mexico, Cuba, Venezuela, and Canada in 1954 before retiring from baseball. Before a baseball career, he had attended in 1937 Lincoln University in nearby Oxford, Pennsylvania for one year. Seeking a new career, he enrolled using his benefits of the GI Bill in the New Jersey State Teachers College at Glassboro, graduating in the spring of 1955. After college graduation, he spent the next 28 years as a sixth-grade teacher in Pleasantville, New Jersey. He should be remembered as someone who had strength of character, not only in baseball but also in what he taught in the classroom and what he brought to the community. Airing posthumously on July 4, 2003 on PBS television, he appeared in the episode concerning the 1949 dedication, which was in an era of racial segregation, of the "Pop" Lloyd Baseball Stadium in honor of great Negro League All-Star John Henry "Pop" Lloyd. In 1947 he married Dorothy Winder, the daughter of a postman, and the couple had two sons and two daughters.
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