Myers, Walter Dean. <br/><br/>
The journal of Biddy Owens :  the Negro leagues / 
by Walter Dean Myers. 
 - New York :  Scholastic,  2001. 
 - 141 p. :  ill., maps ;  20 cm. 
 - My name is America Dear 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/> 3-7.  5.  920  Lexile 
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<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)--Fiction.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>African Americans--Fiction.<br/>Segregation--Fiction.<br/>Prejudices--Fiction.<br/>Diaries--Fiction.<br/>Historical Fiction<br/>Baseball--Negro League--Fiction<br/>Sports--Baseball--Fiction
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PZ7.M992  / Ji 2001 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>Fic