Down to the last out : the journal of Biddy Owens, the Negro Leagues [My Name Is America]by Myers, Walter Dean 

Paperback(Scholastic, 2013)

BTSB #: 665926 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
Lexile: 950

Genres: Historical Fiction Sports

Subjects: Baseball - Fiction Negro leagues - Fiction African Americans - Fiction Diaries - Fiction

Summary: 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. As they travel around playing ball, Biddy realizes not everyone is ready for blacks and whites to play on the same team.