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Author:

Myers, Walter Dean, 1937-

Title:

Down to the last out : the journal of Biddy Owens, the Negro leagues / Walter Dean Myers.

Publisher:

Scholastic,

Copyright Date:

2013, c2001

Description:

135 p. : ill., map ; 20 cm.

Subject:

Birmingham Black Barons (Baseball team)--Fiction.
Birmingham Black Barons (Baseball team)--Fiction.
Baseball--Fiction.
Negro Leagues--Fiction.
African Americans--Fiction.
Segregation--Fiction.
Prejudices--Fiction.
Diaries--Fiction.
Baseball--Fiction.
African Americans--Fiction.
Segregation--Fiction.
Prejudices--Fiction.
Diaries--Fiction.

Other Titles:

Journal of Biddy Owens, the Negro leagues

Notes:

Originally published: The journal of Biddy Owens, the Negro leagues. New York : Scholastic, 2001.

Summary:

A teenager's 1948 journal about working for the Birmingham Black Barons covers the games, the players, racism the team faces, and his family's resistance to his becoming a professional, with a historical note about the Negro Leagues.

ISBN:

0545530504
9780545530507 (pbk.)

LCCN:

bl2012047541

Locations:

MWPB943 -- Dayton Public Library (Dayton)

GOPG641 -- Marshalltown Public Library (Marshalltown)