Myers, Walter Dean,  1937- <br/><br/>
The journal of Biddy Owens :  the Negro leagues / 
by Walter Dean Myers 
 - New York :  Scholastic,   2001 
 - 141 pages :  illustrations, map ;  20 cm 
 - Dear America book My name is America .
<br/><br/> 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 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0439095034 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>00044667 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Corporate Names: </label><br/>Birmingham Black Barons (Baseball team)--Juvenile fiction<br/>Birmingham Black Barons (Baseball team)--Fiction
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>African Americans--Juvenile fiction<br/>Baseball stories<br/>Negro leagues--Fiction<br/>African Americans--Fiction<br/>Segregation--Fiction<br/>Prejudices--Fiction<br/>Diaries--Fiction
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Fiction.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>[Fic]