The the Negro leagues Myers, Walter Dean 1937-2014 creator text New York Scholastic 2001 monographic 141 pages : illustrations ; 22 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. Q 920 Lexile Q 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 Ji 2001 973 0439095034 9780545530507 DLC 20231107100109.0 590 eng