The Dickson Baseball Dictionary

by Paul Dickson

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: 3.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.1" x 6.6" x 9.6"