Manley co-owned the New Jersey-based Eagles with her husband, Abe, and ran the business end of the team for more than a decade. The Eagles won the Negro Leagues World Series in 1946 -- one year before Jackie Robinson broke the major league color barrier.
''She was very knowledgeable," said Hall of Famer Monte Irvin, who played for the Eagles while the Manleys owned the team. ''She did a lot for the Newark community."
Manley died in 1981 at age 84.
Buck O'Neil and Minnie Minoso, the only living members among the 39 candidates on the ballot, were not elected by the 12-person panel.
Mule Suttles, Biz Mackey, Ray Brown, Willard Brown, Andy Cooper, Cristobal Torriente, and Jud Wilson were the former Negro League players elected.
Clemens pitches to son Roger Clemens's son took dad deep on the Rocket's first pitch of spring training in Kissimmee, Fla., crushing a trademark fastball over the left-field fence.
''That was probably one of the harder fastballs I cut loose," Clemens said after throwing to son Koby and other Houston Astros minor leaguers. ''He got my attention."
Then the Rocket got Koby's. The next time his oldest son came to the plate, Clemens buzzed him high and tight with another fastball. Koby dodged the pitch, then smiled at his father.
''He was like, 'Sorry about that pitch inside. I was trying to change the view of the ball for you a little bit,' " said Koby, a third baseman who was drafted by Houston last summer. ''I said, 'I knew what you were doing.' "
Percival leaves camp Reliever Troy Percival has left Detroit Tigers training camp in Lakeland, Fla., perhaps for good, after experiencing elbow pain Sunday in a simulated game. Percival, 36, partially tore a muscle near his pitching elbow last July . . . One day after starter Brian Lawrence's shoulder surgery, the Washington Nationals agreed to terms with 35-year-old righthander Pedro Astacio on a one-year contract, pending an MRI . . . Los Angeles Angels outfielder Vladimir Guerrero was given yesterday off from training in Tempe, Ariz., after three cousins died in a car crash in the Dominican Republic Sunday . . . Former White Sox star Frank Thomas and Chicago general manager Kenny Williams talked by phone to discuss their escalated verbal feud. Neither one said things had been patched up, and both indicated a desire to move on.
