The journal of Biddy Owens, the Negro leagues

Walter Dean Myers First published 2001

About this book

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

african americans
african americans, fiction
baseball
baseball, fiction
birmingham black barons (baseball team)
children's fiction
diaries
diaries, fiction
fiction
juvenile fiction
negro leagues
prejudices
prejudices, fiction
segregation