The Dickson Baseball Dictionary

The expanded and now-definitive work on the language of baseballThat rarest of sports books, a valuable reference work that provides absorbing and enlightening reading. Sports Illustrated Hailed as a staggering piece of scholarship Wall Street Journal The Dickson Baseball Dictionary is the most complete resource on the lexicon of baseball in the English language. More than twenty-five years in the making, with the help of more than 400 baseball and lexical experts, this masterful third edition, expanded by more than 30 percent, with over 10,000 terms and 18,000 definitions, provides the comprehensive history and meanings of words and phrases from around the world of baseball. Drawing on dozens of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century periodicals, as well as contemporary sources, Paul Dicksons brilliant, illuminating definitions trace the earliest appearances of our most treasured baseball expressions tearin up the pea patch, can o corn, catbird seat, etc.