Title: The journal of Biddy Owens, the Negro leagues
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.
Subjects: Birmingham Black Barons (Baseball team), Baseball, Segregation, Diaries, African Americans, Juvenile fiction, Negro leagues, Prejudices, Negro Leagues, Fiction, Children's fiction, Baseball, fiction, African americans, fiction, Prejudices, fiction, Diaries, fiction