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* National Pastime Radio: Word for the day

October 22, 2009 · 0 comments

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 · 0 comments

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 [...]

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

July 22, 2009 · 0 comments

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 · 0 comments

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 · 0 comments

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.

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* Yo lo tengo!

June 9, 2009 · 0 comments

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.

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* What's that you say?

April 18, 2009 · 0 comments

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 · 0 comments

(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 [...]

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