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The Journal of Biddy Owens: The Negro Leagues, Birmingham, Alabama, 1948 (My Name is America) | 
 enlarge | Author: Walter Dean Myers
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Category: Book
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Rating:  25 reviews
Sales Rank: 746441
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1st
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Pages: 141
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 5.4 x 0.7
ISBN: 0439095034
EAN: 9780439095037
ASIN: 0439095034
Publication Date: April 1, 2001
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Product Description
Biddy Owens is the batboy for the Birmingham Black Barons, one of the best teams in the Negro Leagues. With a supporting cast of characters that includes some of the greatest players ever, Biddy s story covers the games, the grueling road trips, racial segregation, and day-to-day life in Birmingham during this pivotal time in American history.
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The Best way vto learn about negro league baseball May 15, 2007
I really like the book The Journal of Biddy Owens. It was about a boy from Birmingham Alabama at the age of 17 he was playing on a Negro league team called the Black Barons. They played on away team fields or their home field Rickwood. The Black Barons had to travel all around the United States to play against 11 different Negro league teams and some Rookie teams. There where some many talented ball players on the team and there was one who was the leader who is the second baseman named Piper. They where a very outgoing team like going to restaurants and meeting new people. The team mad it all the way to the championship. I liked the author because he used very descriptive words and the best was that he uses dates and not chapters. I would recommend this book because it was very well written and descriptive.
This book was actually okay! April 16, 2007
This book is about a 17 year old boy named Biddy Owens. He is an African American and is the equipment manager for the Birmingham Black Barons. The year was 1948 and he lived in Alabama. The Black Barons were a team that at the time played in the Negro Leagues. Biddy had always been fascinated with baseball and had always wanted to play as a regular player. He always felt left out just running errands and keeping score. The head coach named Piper knew that so every now and then in practice Piper would let Biddy jump into right field. Piper said though that if he wanted to be on the team though, he would have to put on a few pounds because of him only weighing 135. Biddy started getting better and better and got his weight up until they finally let him join as what they called a regular. That year the Birmingham Black Barons made it to the Negro League World Series. In that series the Black Barons lost every single game. Biddy realized that he wasn't very good, but he didn't care because he had such a love for baseball. In the end the Barons season ended and Biddy got invited to come back and play again next year. I recommend this book to anyone who likes following a diary/journal and to people who especially like baseball.
 Homerun Hitting Book April 16, 2005
Read a homerun hitting book about baseball. It is the Negro Leagues and it is the journal of Biddy Owens. It is about a 17 year old boy that is the team equipment manager of the Birmingham Black Barons. He sometimes gets to play right field and hit the ball too. He goes from city to city with the team to baseball games.
The conflict is that the Blacks have to play baseball in their own league and in some cities they go to they can't go into certain bathrooms, they can't go into certain stores, and they can't even drink out of certain water fountains. Later in the book the white people realize that black people can do things just as well as white people can, so the white leagues draft some black people into their league to play in the major leagues with the white people.
I would recommend people that enjoy baseball read this book because you could read a lot about the history of baseball and how different it was in 1948 compared to how it is now. You could learn about how the leagues were separated and how they come together to form one league.
This book makes you want to play a game of baseball with fri February 23, 2005
DonKing (USA)
This book makes you want to play a game of baseball with friends!
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I chose to read Biddy Owens by Walter Dean Myers because I thought it would be fun and interesting to read. The cover of this book looked like the best biography out there. After reading this book, I felt like playing a good game of baseball because this story described the game like no other! This story was in a way what I expected it to be, but in a way wasn't what I had bargained for. It was what I thought it would be like because it was jam packed with action about all the games Biddy Owens played. It was not what I thought it would be like however, because it also had details about their home life. I definitely don't feel the same about this book because I thought it was going to just be about baseball but it wasn't. It was also about how black people were discriminated in 1948 in Birmingham, Alabama.
The main character of this biography's name is Biddy Owens. He is at age 17 years old, 5 foot 10 inches tall but only weighs 135 pounds when this story takes place. He is an equipment manager, a scorekeeper, an errand boy, and sometimes right fielder. This book takes place in 1948 Birmingham, Alabama. This story is about Biddy Owens and when he played for the Black Barons. It is also about his home life. This is a biography written in first person by Walter Dean Myers.
I liked this book because it had two parts to it, it described baseball back then but it also described black discrimination and home life back then, and I like that because it came from Biddy Owens that had experienced both of those.
I liked this book a lot! And I would definitely recommend it to a friend. I think this book would be appropriate for anybody at the age of 10 or up.
I would give this book a four-star rating.
 A Real Patriot December 9, 2004
Tim Corbett (St.Louis MO, USA)
Scott Pendelton Collins is a true american patriot. In this book he faces many hardships that would make many men runaway with their tails between their legs. He fights through one of the most well known battles of World War Two, D-Day and his company aids in the capture of the French city of St.Lo, and many key cities along the way. He has to walk endless miles and be ready for unexpected attacks, as well as have to be ready to fight with a 30 minute notice. He is hesitant on making friends because he knows that they or he could die at any time. He witnessed many of his new friends die on the beach on D-Day. He also reads about one of his friends deaths in a casuality report. He says the war has changd him in many ways, some good and some bad, and he doesn't think he will ever be able to forget the constant boom of the arterilly fire for both sides, allies and germans.
Scott fights for his family back home and his friends, but he also fights to defend many people in Europe he has never met. He steps in and fight risking his life for people he has never met and for people who can't fight for themselfs. He has the power to fight and he fights, this makes him a true patriot, fighting not only for his faily and friends, but for people he hasn't met and for his nation that he loves. Even through all his fighting he has to give up the right to tell his parents anything about where he is and what he's doing which he sacrifices knowing that what he is fighting for is well worth the sacrifice. He is willing to make the biggest sacrifice anyone can make for his country which is something only a true american patriot would do.
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