The journal of Biddy Owens, the Negro leagues
By: by Walter Dean Myers
Series: My name is America
Publisher: Scholastic
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 139
ISBN-13: 9780439445726
Subjects: Birmingham Black Barons (Baseball team); Baseball; Segregation; Diaries; African Americans; Juvenile fiction; Negro leagues; Prejudices
Description: Teenager Biddy Owens' 1948 journal about working for the Birmingham Black Barons includes the games and the players, racism the team faces from New Orleans to Chicago, and his family's resistance to his becoming a professional baseball player.  Includes a historical note about the evolution of the Negro Leagues.
Notes: "Birmingham, Alabama, 1948"--Cover.

"Biddy Owens is a fictional character, created by the author, and his journal and its epilogue are works of fiction."--Colophon.