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Author:

Myers, Walter Dean, 1937-

Title:

The journal of Biddy Owens, the Negro leagues / by Walter Dean Myers.

Publisher:

Scholastic,

Copyright Date:

2001

Description:

141 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Subject:

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

Summary:

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.

Series:

My name is America

Indexed by:

Multicul Sep 2001.
BCCB Recommended.
Kirkus 03/15/2001.
VOYA 2001 no. 4.
SLJ Apr 2001.
Bklst 02/15/2001.

ISBN:

0439095034
9780439095037

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