The new Dickson baseball dictionary
Subtitle: a cyclopedic reference to more than 7,000 words, names, phrases, and slang expressions that define the game, its heritage, culture, and variations
By: Paul Dickson.
Contributors: Dickson, Paul.
Edition: 1st Harvest ed.
Publisher: Harcourt Brace & Co.
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 579
Subjects: Baseball -- United States -- Dictionaries
Genres: Dictionaries.
Description: "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."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [568]-576).
Rev. ed. of: The Dickson baseball dictionary. 1991.