Hailed as "a staggering piece of scholarship" ("Wall Street Journal"), the new edition of "The Dickson Baseball Dictionary" includes more than 10,000 terms and introduces words and phrases from around the world of baseball. Photographs throughout.
Annotation: A comprehensive and entertaining compendium of baseball knowledge.
Praise
"[T]he Nabokovian sense of play with the English language evident in DICKSON'S BASEBALL DICTIONARY proves that the boys of summer really are unlikely poets." - Nick Stillman 06/01/2009