The the Negro leagues Myers, Walter Dean 1937-2014 creator text New York Scholastic 2001 First paperback printing , October 2002 monographic 139 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm. 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. Z 920 Lexile Z Raz-Plus by Walter Dean Myers. African Americans Juvenile fiction Baseball Fiction Negro Leagues Fiction African Americans Fiction Segregation Fiction Prejudices Fiction Diaries Fiction PZ7.M992 2001 973 9780439445726 DLC 20241203152639.0 3099 eng