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The Dickson Baseball Dictionary (Third Edition)

2011-06-13 Sports & Recreation
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Release : 2011-06-13
Genre : Sports & Recreation
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Book Rating : 491/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book The Dickson Baseball Dictionary (Third Edition) written by Paul Dickson. This book was released on 2011-06-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive work on the language of baseball—one of the “Five Best Baseball Books” (Wall Street Journal). 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 and obscure. This edition includes more than 10,000 terms with 18,000 individual entries, and more than 250 photos. This “impressively comprehensive” (The Nation) book will delight everyone from the youngest fan to the hard-core aficionado.

The Dickson Baseball Dictionary

1991 Baseball
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Release : 1991
Genre : Baseball
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Download or read book The Dickson Baseball Dictionary written by Paul Dickson. This book was released on 1991. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The New Dickson Baseball Dictionary

1999 Sports & Recreation
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Release : 1999
Genre : Sports & Recreation
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 807/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book The New Dickson Baseball Dictionary written by Paul Dickson. This book was released on 1999. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Still not sure what makes a sinker different from a curve? Can't remember when the M&M boys played with the Yankees? Want to know where the "seventh-inning stretch" comes from? Then you've done the right thing by picking up this book - the most complete collection of baseball terms and slang to be found between two covers. Impeccably researched, The New Dickson Baseball Dictionary covers all the bases.

The Dickson Baseball Dictionary

2004-06
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Release : 2004-06
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Book Rating : 279/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book The Dickson Baseball Dictionary written by Paul Dickson. This book was released on 2004-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating compilation contains all kinds of definitions and descriptions of baseball terms from the most mundane to the most arcane, with plenty of colorful and clever ones in between. It1s a quirky mix of rules, definitions, historical allusions, how and when various baseball expressions began, and stuff that1s just plain fun to know. Wonderful illustrations from the living literature of baseball and a slew of photos and drawings further illuminate the men and the scenes that have enriched the language of the game. A gold mine of information . . . sheer entertaining reading on every page.

The Dickson Baseball Dictionary 3e

2009-02-24 Reference
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Release : 2009-02-24
Genre : Reference
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Book Rating : 819/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book The Dickson Baseball Dictionary 3e written by Paul Dickson. This book was released on 2009-02-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Draws on extensive historical and contemporary sources to provide definitions for terms from their earliest appearances, in a latest edition that has been expanded to include more than 18,000 entries.

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