The Dickson Baseball Dictionary

by Paul Dickson

Book Overview

Hailed as "a staggering piece of scholarship" (Wall Street Journal) and "an indispensable guide to the language of baseball" (San Diego Union-Tribune), The Dickson Baseball Dictionary has become an invaluable resource for those who love the game. Drawing on dozens of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century periodicals, as well as contemporary sources, Dickson's brilliant, illuminating definitions trace the earliest appearances of terms both well known...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393340082
• ISBN13: 9780393340082
• Release Date: June 2011
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 1008 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.1" x 6.6" x 9.6"