Entry 6

Satchel Paige

What I read about today is Biddy meeting a very good baseball player named Satch. He has a legendary pitch called a hesitation. One of the players on the Barons tried to do the pitch and let 4 people score and hurt some of them. Then after that game they went to Chicago and some white people surprisingly gave them mashed potatoes and potato salad also some fried chicken. Then since they weren’t hungry they played a great game and scored a lot of points.

Entry 5

What I read about today is that the Birmingham Barons have won the first half of the season games. Then they played the Houston Clowns and beat them, when they finished that game they had to go to Memphis. Then they played against Morehouse, Biddy thought that they were very smart and he got to play that game but he made a mistake. Morehouse was going to have cheerleaders from Spellman but when they showed up they looked to dressy. Biddy called his mama and told her about Morehouse and he should apply. But he said he didn’t have money because going to college takes money.

Entry 4

What I read about today was about the Birmingham Barons playing the Houston Clowns. Piper, one of the players on the Barons didn’t like the clowns because they were messing around and he thought it made it look like the Negro leagues were a joke. That made the Barons play harder, than a guy from the white clowns had a pistol and asked the Barons if they wanted to play against the white clowns. The Barons grabbed everything and ran to the bus and left. They were off to Memphis, Tennessee. During the night some of the players went to a jazz club and then the players that went to the club came back the whole team went to a diner. After that they went to a white restaurant snuck in and got some drinks.

Entry 3

What I read about today was how Biddy Owens loved baseball. He loved the sport but his mom didn’t, she said “the lord didn’t like baseball and he wanted them to come to church not play baseball.” But that didn’t matter because today was opening day he loved it, all the people were taking pictures of them even white photographers, when they were loading things on to the bus they took pictures of them they felt like they were famous!

Entry 2

What I read about today was the other teams buses breaking down. They wanted to ride on the Birmingham Barons bus but the manager said no. He told them it wasn’t his fault the bus broke down and they ended up finding another bus and 3 cars that they had 7 players riding in each car. Then when they got to the game they were so tired and did not play a good game at all they didn’t hit any home runs or even just pop up.

Entry 1

The Barons won 2 baseball games against the Memphis Monarchs the first game they won 4 to 3 the second game they won 5 to 4. The Memphis Monarchs are one of the best teams in the Negro leagues. So after they won the both of the games they drove to Chicago, Piper (a player on the Barons) played cards with Biddy against some other players on the bus and they lost Piper didn’t take that well because it was very boring on the bus. Once they got to Chicago everybody thought it was very hot.

Biddy and Piper went to the pool hall and a tall guy that was dressed in a zoot suit had a gun. His girlfriend started winking at them when she found out they were baseball players, she was trying to start a fight. The guy told them it was time for them to go and showed them his gun to them. Biddy thought piper would have said something smart but he didn’t because he knew he could have gotten shot. After a couple of hours the whole team got on the bus and headed to Atlanta, about an hour on the way the bus broke down. So they had to take a train and they were very bored so the train was everything but quiet, they were playing cards talking and even working out.