Paul Dickson, author of several highly-acclaimed baseball titles, was selected to receive the 2011 Tony Salin Memorial Award, given by the Baseball Reliquary to in recognition of commitment to the preservation of baseball history.
Highlights from Reliquary press release:
Dickson is the author of nearly 60 nonfiction books and hundreds of magazine articles. Although he has written on a variety of subjects from ice cream to kite flying to electronic warfare, he now concentrates on writing about American language, 20th century narrative history, and baseball.
Since 1968, he has been a full-time freelance writer, contributing articles to various newspapers and magazines, including the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Smithsonian, Esquire, The Nation, and Town & Country, and has authored numerous books.
Cover of Baseball: The Presidents' Game
His baseball titles include 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’s Greatest Quotations (which came out in a new and expanded edition in 2007); Baseball: The Presidents’ Game; and The Worth Book of Softball: A Celebration of America’s True National Pastime. His most recent baseball books are The Unwritten Rules of Baseball: The Etiquette, Conventional Wisdom, and Axiomatic Codes of Our National Pastime and The Dickson Baseball Dictionary: Third Edition, which were both published in 2009, and Baseball Is . . .: Defining the National Pastime, published in 2011.
Originally published in 1989, The Dickson Baseball Dictionary ranks as the author’s most popular book. The most authoritative and comprehensive guide to baseball terminology ever compiled, The Dickson Baseball Dictionary was awarded the 1989 Macmillan-SABR Award for Baseball Research and has been hailed as “a staggering piece of scholarship” (Wall Street Journal) and “absorbing and enlightening reading” (Sports Illustrated). An expanded second edition came out in 1999, followed by a third edition in 2009 with more than 10,000 entries and double the size of the original. Dickson is currently working on his first biography, scheduled for publication in 2012, which is tentatively titled The Life and Good Times of Bill Veeck – The Man Who Changed Baseball.
For more information, visit www.pauldicksonbooks.com and www.baseballdictionary.com.
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