Maxwell Manning (born on November 18, 1918 in Rome, Georgia, - June 23, 2003 in Pleasantville, New Jersey) was a baseball player in the Negro Leagues. He would play pitcher and played from 1938 to 1949. He 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.