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The Dickson Baseball Dictionary
by
Paul Dickson
Hailed as a staggering piece of scholarship (Wall Street Journal) The Dickson Baseball Dictionary is the most complete resource on the lexicon of baseball in the English language. More than twenty-five years in the making, with the help of more than 400 baseball and lexical experts, this masterful third edition, expanded by more than 30 percent, with over 10,000 terms and ...more
Hardcover, 974 pages
Published
February 1st 2009
by W. W. Norton & Company
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Paul Dickson is a prolific writer whose work includes such serious works of history as THE BONUS ARMY: AN AMERICAN EPIC and SPUTNIK: THE SHOCK OF THE CENTURY, as well as numerous books on such topics as language, culture, and baseball.
I am a particular fan of his books about baseball, including THE HIDDEN LANGUAGE OF BASEBALL and BASEBALL: THE PRESIDENT'S GAME, both of which are entertaining and informative. But my favorite is the third edition of Dickson's THE DICKSON BASEBALL DI...more
I am a particular fan of his books about baseball, including THE HIDDEN LANGUAGE OF BASEBALL and BASEBALL: THE PRESIDENT'S GAME, both of which are entertaining and informative. But my favorite is the third edition of Dickson's THE DICKSON BASEBALL DI...more
This gigantic book is the new edition and is almost twice the size of the previous one (1999). I went to hear Dickson speak the other night when he was in town for the SABR convention. The room was filled with folks who were every bit as wacked out as I was about the game.
I find I keep this essential dictionary near my desk and TV and check it both to see if I really understand something, to see if something just said is in the book, and/or to get something to stump one of my ...more
I find I keep this essential dictionary near my desk and TV and check it both to see if I really understand something, to see if something just said is in the book, and/or to get something to stump one of my ...more
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the best book i've seen to explain those weird phrases that baseball broadcasters and journalists use. gives a definition, some background, the first example in history of the phrase being used, etc. a good book to have by your side when you're watching or listening to a game.
Gift from my wife, just in time for the new season. What a sweetheart.
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Paul Dickson is the author of more than 45 nonfiction books and hundreds of magazine articles. Although he has written on a variety of subjects from ice cream to kite flying to electronic warfare, he now concentrates on writing about the American language, baseball and 20th century history.
Dickson, born in Yonkers, NY, graduated from Wesleyan University in 1961 and was honored a...more
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