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

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: My name is America | Dear AmericaPublication details: New York : Scholastic, 2001.Edition: 1st edDescription: 141 p. : ill., map ; 20 cmISBN:
  • 0439095034
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • [Fic] 21
LOC classification:
  • PZ7.M992 Ji 2001
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.
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Fiction MVS Library Main room-back corner E- Series Fiction (Middle) SERIES MS FIC Myers (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 400248

"A Dear America book"--Cover.

School Library Journal, April 2001

Booklist, February 2001

Bulletin (Center for Children's books), July 2001

Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), August 2001

Kirkus Review, March 2001

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.

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