* An ode to Paul Dickson

June 17, 2009

Thanks to Gabriel Schechter, author of This Bad Day in Yankees History, who delivered the following poem at the recent Cooperstown Symposium.

Baseball’s Glad Lexicon

These are the gladdest of possible words:
Dickson has done it again.

Trio of volumes each jam-packed with gems
From “A-ball” to “lulu” to “zurdo.”

Re-shaping his lexicon into the best,
Deciphering shedings no others have guessed
Defining the slang that eluded the rest,
From “A-ball” to “lulu” to “zurdo.”

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