Bound To Stay Bound

		Down to the last out : the journal of Biddy Owens, the Negro Leagues (My Name Is America)  Author: Myers, Walter Dean  Publisher:  Scholastic (2013)  Classification: Fiction  Physical Description: 135 p., ill., map, 20 cm  BTSB No: 665926  ISBN: 9780545530507  Ages: 8-12  Grades: 3-7  Subjects:  Baseball -- Fiction  Negro leagues -- Fiction  African Americans -- Fiction  Diaries -- Fiction
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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.