How long does it take to read The Journal of Biddy Owens, the Negro Leagues?
The Journal of Biddy Owens, the Negro Leagues by Walter Dean Myers takes about 2 hours 33 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 2 hours 33 minutes
An evening's read
First published 2001. 139 pages, about 38,225 words. Written for children.
6 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 4 hours 15 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 2 hours 33 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 36 minutes |
The page count is the median across 5 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
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.
Subjects: Birmingham Black Barons (Baseball team), Baseball, Segregation, Diaries, African Americans, Juvenile fiction
