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THE DICKSON BASEBALL DICTIONARY (THIRD EDITION)
By: Paul Dickson
W. W. Norton & Company
March 2009
On Sale: March 3, 2009
1008 pages
ISBN: 0393066819
EAN: 9780393066814
Hardcover
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The expanded and now-definitive work on the language of baseballโ"absorbing and enlightening reading" (Sports Illustrated). Hailed as "a staggering piece of scholarship" (Wall Street Journal), The Dickson Baseball Dictionary has become an indispensable resource for those who love the game. Drawing on dozens of nineteenth- and early twentieth- century periodicals as well as contemporary sources, illuminating definitions trace the earliest appearances of terms both well known and obscure. More than twenty-five years in the making, with the help of more than three hundred baseball and lexical experts, this new edition is expanded by more than thirty percent to over 10,000 terms with 18,000 individual entries. It introduces words and phrases from around the world of baseball, including those introduced by Latin-American ballplayers, and statistical expressions relating to fantasy baseball and the SABR/Moneyball era. Packed with more than 250 photosโmany rare and previously unpublishedโThe Dickson Baseball Dictionary will delight everyone from the youngest fan to the hard-core aficionado.
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