Max Manning

{{short description|American baseball player}}

{{Infobox baseball biography

|name=Max Manning

|image=Max Manning.jpg

|position=Pitcher

|bats=Left

|throws=Right

|birth_date={{Birth date|1918|11|18}}

|birth_place=Rome, Georgia, U.S.

|death_date={{Death date and age|2003|6|23|1918|11|18}}

|death_place=Pleasantville, New Jersey, U.S.

|debutyear=1939

|debutteam=Newark Eagles

|finalyear=1948

|finalteam=Newark Eagles

|statleague=Negro National League

|stat1label=Win–loss record

|stat1value=37-18

|stat2label=Run average

|stat2value=4.36

|stat3label=Strikeouts

|stat3value=212

|teams=

• Newark Eagles (1939–1942, 1946–1948)

|highlights=

}}

Maxwell Cornelius Manning (November 18, 1918 – June 23, 2003) was an American pitcher in Negro league baseball. He played for the Newark Eagles between 1938 and 1949.

A native of Rome, Georgia, Manning served in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II.{{cite web|author= |url=https://www.baseballinwartime.com/negro.htm |title=Negro Leaguers Who Served With The Armed Forces in WWII |publisher=baseballinwartime.com |date= |accessdate=October 7, 2020}} In the 1946 Negro World Series, he started two games and went 1–1 to help the Eagles win the championship.

Manning appeared in a 2003 episode of the PBS series History Detectives, which featured an investigation into how a baseball field dedicated to fellow Negro league player John Henry Lloyd (better known as "Pop" Lloyd) came to be in Atlantic City, New Jersey during a period where racial discrimination was in force. Manning died in Pleasantville, New Jersey in 2003 at age 84.