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  • Down to the Last Out, The Journal of Biddy Owens, The Negro Leagues

    Walter Dean Myers

    Paperback (Scholastic Paperbacks, Jan. 1, 2013)
    Newbery and Coretta Scott King award-winning author Walter Dean Myers's baseball story THE JOURNAL OF BIDDY OWENS is now available in paperback, with an exciting repackaging!Seventeen-year-old Biddy Owens is part of the Birmingham Black Barons baseball team and dreams of becoming a major league baseball player. However, in 1948 most black players can only play for the Negro Leagues. Jackie Robinson has just recently integrated and is playing for the Brooklyn Dodgers, but the white owners are reluctant to add too many blacks to their rosters. The Birmingham Black Barons are some of the best players in the league. But as they travel around playing ball, Biddy realizes that not everyone is ready for blacks and whites to play on the same team. Can Biddy prove he's good enough to be part of the game his loves, no matter what color his skin is?
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  • Down to the Last Out, The Journal of Biddy Owens, The Negro Leagues

    Walter Dean Myers

    eBook (Scholastic Paperbacks, Jan. 1, 2013)
    Newbery and Coretta Scott King award-winning author Walter Dean Myers's baseball story THE JOURNAL OF BIDDY OWENS is now available in paperback, with an exciting repackaging!Seventeen-year-old Biddy Owens is part of the Birmingham Black Barons baseball team and dreams of becoming a major league baseball player. However, in 1948 most black players can only play for the Negro Leagues. Jackie Robinson has just recently integrated and is playing for the Brooklyn Dodgers, but the white owners are reluctant to add too many blacks to their rosters. The Birmingham Black Barons are some of the best players in the league. But as they travel around playing ball, Biddy realizes that not everyone is ready for blacks and whites to play on the same team. Can Biddy prove he's good enough to be part of the game his loves, no matter what color his skin is?
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  • The Journal of Biddy Owens: The Negro leagues

    Walter Dean Myers

    Hardcover (Scholastic, Nov. 1, 2003)
    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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  • Down to the Last Out, The Journal of Biddy Owens, The Negro Leagues by Myers, Walter Dean

    Walter Dean Myers

    Paperback (Scholastic Paperbacks, Aug. 16, 1800)
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  • Down to the Last Out, The Journal of Biddy Owens, The Negro Leagues by Walter Dean Myers

    Walter Dean Myers;

    Paperback (Scholastic Paperbacks, Aug. 16, 1656)
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  • Down to the Last Out, The Journal of Biddy Owens, The Negro Leagues by Myers, Walter Dean

    Myers

    Paperback (Scholastic Paperbacks, 2013, )
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  • By Walter Dean Myers - Down to the Last Out, The Journal of Biddy Owens, The Negro Leagu

    Walter Dean Myers

    Paperback (Scholastic Paperbacks, Jan. 16, 2013)
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  • Down to the Last Out, The Journal of Biddy Owens, The Negro Leagues by Walter Dean Myers

    Walter Dean Myers

    Paperback (Scholastic Paperbacks, Aug. 16, 1821)
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