The Brooklyn Eagle, also called The Brooklyn Daily Eagle was a daily newspaper published in Brooklyn, New York from 1841 to 1955. It was the most popular afternoon paper in the United States at one point. Walt Whitman was its editor for two years.
There is a current newspaper also called The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, which has been published since 2003.
The Newark Eagles was a professional Negro League baseball team that played in the second Negro National League from 1936 to 1948.
The Eagles were formed when Abe Manley and his wife Effa Manley, founders of the BrooklynEagles, purchased the Newark Dodgers franchise and merged the teams.
Team management was left to Effa, making the Eagles the first professional team owned and operated by a woman, and under her guidance the 1946 team won the Negro League World Series, upsetting the Kansas City Monarchs in a 7-game series.
The Newark Eagles were incepted in 1936 when the Newark Dodgers merged with the BrooklynEagles.
The Newark Eagles had many standout players, but two entered the baseball history books: Larry Doby, the first fl player in the American League (Cleveland Indians), and Don Newcombe, Brooklyn Dodgers rookie of the year, MVP and Cy Young award winner.
The Eagles were the first professional team owned and operated by a woman, Effa Manley.
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