Word for Word

October 30, 2007

The current issue of Verbatim Magazine: The Language Quarterly (although dated Summer 2006!) has an unusual amount of baseball- and sports-related contributions. In addition to my humble offering — “Translating for the Old Ball Game,” an interview with Roger Kahlon, the interpreter for the Yankees’ Hideki Matsui) — the publication contains:

  • “Baseball, Chicago-Style,” by Johnathan Caws-Elwitt, which reports on the Cubs’ adoption of the Chicago Manual of Style for their materials.
  • “If Foul is Fair, What Next?”, by A.H. Block. These entomologies are done better and in much broader range in such books as The New Dickson Baseball Dictionary, by Paul Dickson.
  • “Sportswriting,” by Gerald Eshkenazi, who does just that for The New York Times
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