The journal of Biddy Owens, the Negro leagues
By: by Walter Dean Myers.
Series: My name is America; Dear America book
Publisher: Scholastic
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 141
Subjects: Birmingham Black Barons (Baseball team) -- Juvenile fiction; African Americans -- Juvenile fiction; Negro leagues -- Juvenile fiction; Segregation -- Juvenile fiction; Prejudices -- Juvenile fiction; Diaries -- Juvenile fiction
Genres: Juvenile fiction
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.