Read The Dickson Baseball Dictionary

The Dickson Baseball Dictionary

Paul Dickson

4.9/5 (24092 ratings)

Description: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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Dickson Baseball Dictionary. To get started finding The Dickson Baseball Dictionary, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

Pages: —

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: —

Release: —

ISBN: 0393073491

Description: 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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Dickson Baseball Dictionary. To get started finding The Dickson Baseball Dictionary, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

Special Offer | $0.00

Special Offer! | $0.00

The Dickson Baseball Dictionary

The Dickson Baseball Dictionary

More Books

The Rise of the G.I. Army, 1940-1941: The Forgotten Story of How America Forged a Powerful Army Before Pearl Harbor

The Rise of the G.I. Army, 1940-1941: The Forgotten Story of How America Forged a Powerful Army Before Pearl Harbor

Bill Veeck: Baseball's Greatest Maverick

Bill Veeck: Baseball's Greatest Maverick

Leo Durocher: Baseball's Prodigal Son

Leo Durocher: Baseball's Prodigal Son

The Joy of Keeping Score: How Scoring the Game Has Influenced and Enhanced the History of Baseball

The Joy of Keeping Score: How Scoring the Game Has Influenced and Enhanced the History of Baseball

The Unwritten Rules of Baseball: The Etiquette, Conventional Wisdom, and Axiomatic Codes of Our National Pastime

The Unwritten Rules of Baseball: The Etiquette, Conventional Wisdom, and Axiomatic Codes of Our National Pastime

The Bonus Army: An American Epic

The Bonus Army: An American Epic

The Hidden Language of Baseball

The Hidden Language of Baseball

Sputnik: The Launch of the Space Race

Sputnik: The Launch of the Space Race

Authorisms: Words Wrought by Writers

Authorisms: Words Wrought by Writers