* The Great Experiment

(No, not Jackie Robinson. Actually this should probably be called the tiny experiment.)

I spoke with the prolific author Paul Dickson on the painstaking tasks involved in creating and editing the third edition of The Dickson Baseball Dictionary, which will be released in March by W.W. Norton and Son.

Dickson specializes in intensely-researched baseball titles which have become neo-classics, including The Hidden Language of Baseball — How Signs and Sign-Stealing Have Influenced the Course of Our National Pastime; The Joy of Keeping Score: How Scoring the Game Has Influenced and Enhanced the History of Baseball, Baseball: The President’s Game (With William B. Mead), and Baseball’s Greatest Quotations.

Let us know what you think.

The Amazon Report on Paul Dickson:

The Hidden Language of Baseball

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

Baseball’s Greatest Quotations Rev. Ed.: An Illustrated Treasury of Baseball Quotations and Historical Lore