Cuban League Photo Effa Manley?

[JimStinson]

Thanks, yes I know it's not Gibson in the photo. But I think based on the others that came with it that it's, 1940's maybe. My daughter looked at multiple photos of Manley and said it's her. The mystery is I've never seen a photo with long hair and what would a woman be doing posed with what is starting to look like a very young group of players.
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[packs]

Do you have any reason to believe she was involved with Cuban baseball? The bios I've read don't put her in organized baseball until she married her husband and her association is tied to the Eagles.

[Jason19th]

I do not think that looks at all like Effa. For one dispite the fact that she was able to “pass” and an African American woman, she was actually 100% white (she was the biological child of her White mother and a white man that her mother had an affair with). The woman in this picture has very Latina features. Also I have never come across anything which suggests that Effa was involved in any Caribbean or Mexican baseball. Finally I have seen many photos where teams would pose with local beauty contest winners. My guess is that is what is going on here

[Jason19th]

I have an alternate theory. If that’s a D on the uniforms it could be a Dominican Stars team during the Trujillo era. If that’s the case Trujillo had a mistress who looks a lot like the women in the photo. There is an image of the woman in the book the Pitcher and the Dictator. I will have to find my copy to check