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The expanded and nowdefinitive work on the language of baseballabsorbingand enlightening reading Sports Illustrated. Hailed as a staggering pieceof scholarship Wall Street Journal The Dickson Baseball Dictionary hasbecome an indispensable resource for those who love the game. Drawing on dozensof nineteenth and early twentiethcentury periodicals as well as contemporarysources Paul Dicksons brilliant illuminating definitions trace the earliestappearances of terms both well known and obscure. More than twentyfive yearsin the making with the help of more than three hundred baseball and lexicalexperts this new edition is expanded by more than thirty percent to over10000 terms with 18000 individual entries. It introduces words and phrasesfrom around the world of baseball including those introduced by LatinAmericanballplayers and statistical expressions relating to fantasy baseball and theSABRMoneyball era. Packed with more than 250 photosmany rare andpreviously unpublishedThe Dickson Baseball Dictionary will delight everyonefrom the youngest fan to the hardcore aficionado. 263 illustrations. «