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Bits and pieces, July 21, 2015

July 21, 2015

Rob Neyer occasionally posts “book club” entries as part of his Just a  Bit Outside site. This one was put up shortly after the passing of Alison Gordon, a sportswriter who covered the Toronto Blue Jays and chronicled the experience in her book Foul Ball!: Five Years in the American League. This piece from BaseballEssential […]

Tagged as: Alison Gordon, Arnold Hano, baseball dictionary, Bobby Brown, Filip Bondy, J.P. Hoornstra, Jon Leonoudakis, Kansas City Royals, Los Angeles Dodgers, Molly Knight, New York Yankees, Ron Neyer

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The Bookshelf (mini) review: How to Speak Baseball

April 22, 2014

An Illustrated Guide to Ballpark Banter, by James Charlton and Sally Cook; illustrations by Ross MacDonald. Chronicle Books, 148 pages, $14.95. “Quaint” is the first word that came to me as I perused this amusing little volume. While the information herein is obviously not as fulsome any of the Dickson Baseball Dictionaries, it does cover […]

Tagged as: baseball definitions, baseball dictionary

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* National Pastime Radio: Word for the day

October 22, 2009

Words, actually. And days. In recognition of the post-season, the Brian Lehrer Show on NPR had two days of baseball terms, courtesy of Erin McKean of wordnik.com. The program was so nice, they ran it twice, first on Oct. 20and an “extra innings” segment the following day. McKean, who publishes Verbatim Magaizne (to which I […]

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* Baseball's "urban dictionary"

September 22, 2009

From the eclectic PitchersndPoets site comes the “Rogue’s Baseball Index,” a sort of urban dictionary about the national pastime. RBI is divided into several categories, including entries about players, fans, management, media, et al. A random entry: The George Will is a hyper-intellectualized fan who gets so caught up in the history and legend and […]

Tagged as: baseball dictionary, baseball terminology

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* Editor interview: Paul Dickson (con't.)

July 22, 2009

Last week we ran the first part of a Q&A with editor Paul Dickson from VisualThesaurus.com. Here’s the conclusion: The Bountiful Lexicon of Baseball, Part 2 Last week, in part one of our interview with author Paul Dickson, we talked about the work that went into the new edition of his Dickson Baseball Dictionary — […]

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* Editor interview: Paul Dickson

July 13, 2009 · 1 comment

From the Visual Thesaurus website, comes the first of a two-part Q&A with the editor of The Dickson Baseball Dictionary. Thanks to Abby Meth Kantor, managing editor of the New jersey Jewish News, for the heads-up. * * * The Bountiful Lexicon of Baseball As Major League Baseball heads into the All-Star break, we’re taking […]

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* 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 […]

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* Dickensian, out; Dicksonian, in

June 16, 2009

With all the rave reviews Paul Dickson’s Baseball Dictionary has received this year, I wouldn’t be surprised to find his own name in the reference staple some day. This piece comes from the May13 edition of The Nation.

Tagged as: baseball dictionary, Paul Dickson

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* Yo lo tengo!

June 9, 2009

You would have thought someone would have published this years ago. Oh wait, someone did. Somewhere, many years ago when the Montreal Expos were in their heyday, I had a French-English baseball dictionary. Wish I could get my hands on that again.

Tagged as: baseball dictionary, Spanish baseball

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* What's that you say?

April 18, 2009

Congratulations to Paul Dickson, author of the eponymous Baseball Dictionary, which was cited in William Safire’s “On Language” column in the April 19 issue of the Sunday Times Magazine. Safire devoted his weekly offering to Baseball Lingo. It’s really nothing you haven’t seen over and over again: how someone at work pinch hits for a […]

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* The Great Experiment

January 27, 2009

(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 […]

Tagged as: baseball dictionary, baseball reference, Paul Dickson

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