♦ Bill Jordan posted this review of Paul Dickson’s Bill Veeck: Baseball’s Greatest Maverick, on Baseball Reflections. Upshot: “Anyone who considers themselves to be a fan of baseball history should pick this work up. Whether you were familiar with Veeck or not before reading the book, you stand to learn a lot about this interesting […]
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These come from the New Books Network which features news on several different genres, including sports. These two, both by Bruce Berglund, feature interviews with Robert Fitts, author of Banzai Babe Ruth: Baseball, Espionage, and Assassination during the 1934 Tour of Japan; Lee Congdon, author of Baseball and Memory: Winning, Losing, and Remembrances of Things […]
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The Baseball Reliquary program on Bill Veeck and his contributions to the game opens today in Arcadia, Calif. Paul Dickson, whose new biography, Bill Veeck: Baseball’s Greatest Maverick, will be at the event. His essay on Veeck has appeared in several publications over the past few days.
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♦ Bill Jordan at Baseball Reflections on Tim Wendel’s Summer of 68. ♦ Tom Hoffarth kicked off his annual “30 book in 30 days” feature yesterday with Baseball Prospectus 2012. Today’s book is Trading Manny: How a Father & Son Learned to Love Baseball Again, by Jim Gullo. (Here’s another review from The Oregonian.) ♦ Sticking […]
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The always-entertaining, education, and interesting Baseball Reliquary will host “Bill Veeck: Baseball’s Greatest Maverick,” an exhibition at the Arcadia Public Library, Arcadia, California, from April 9 and through May 24. The exhibition is based on Paul Dickson’s book, Bill Veeck: Baseball’s Greatest Maverick, the first major biography on this American original, which is due out […]
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Several new titles arrived over the past week including: Before the Curse: The Chicago Cubs’ Glory Years, 1870-1945, by Randy Roberts and Carson Cunningham A People’s History of Baseball, by Mitchell Nathanson Bill Veeck: Baseball’s Greatest Maverick, by Paul Dickson (Of The Dickson Baseball Dictionary fame) The Big Show: Charles M. Conlon’s Golden Age Baseball […]
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Dickson, author of several outstanding books on the game, not the least of which is his eponymous Baseball Dictionary, was recently honored at an event sponsored by the Baseball Reliquary. While Robert Alomar, Bert Blyleven, and Pat Gillick were in Cooperstown last weekend, the Reliquary was having an “induction day” of its own in southern […]
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Defining the National Pastime, edited by Paul Dickson. Dover, 2011. In a word, Baseball is… great fun. Okay, so that’s two words, so sue me. The small, square paperback contains the wisdom of the ages when it comes to distilling the history of the game into a few sentences. There are plenty of larger books […]
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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 […]
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John Jayme of Eugene, OR, is the latest winner of the Bookshelf Facebook Friend drawing. This month’s book is Campy: The Two Lives of Roy Campanella, by Neil Lanctot. The next book, in preparation for Fathers’ Day, will be “Baseball Is . . .”: Defining the National Pastime, edited by Paul Dickson. Tell your friends!
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The Hall of the Very Good blog posted this article about little known facts regarding the men who occupied the highest office in the land and the national pastime. Paul Dickson, baseball referencarian par excellence, published Baseball: The Presidents’ Game in 1993, with an update four years later. Dan Cohen published Play Ball, Mr. President: […]
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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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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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Dover Publications, under the direction of contributing editor Paul Dickson, has just begun a series of classic books on sports with an emphasis on baseball titles, which are running about 3:1 over other sports. The line will be varied to include fiction but its early emphasis is on autobiography and oral history. Connie Mack’s My […]
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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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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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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 Etiquette, Conventional Wisdom, and Axiomatic Codes of Our National Pastime, by Paul Dickson (Collins, 2009) It’s Passover time, so forgive me a comment relating to the traditions of the holiday: There’s a song we sing at the Seder called “Dayenu.” It means, basically, “it would have been enough.” If God had done A and […]
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As Casey Stengel used to say. The Seattle Times posted this review of Paul Dickson’s latest edition, by syndicated Washington Post columnist David R. Broder, no less.
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Dickson, author of the third edition of his eponymous Baseball Dictionary, was the subject of this recent interview on NPR’s All Things Considered, which you can hear here. Paul was kind enough to forward the transcript of the program, which appears here for your convenience: COPYR IGHT 2009 All Things Considered® Copyright 2007 NPR. ROBERT […]
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April 9, 2009
As Casey Stengel used to say. The Seattle Times posted this review of Paul Dickson’s latest edition, by syndicated Washington Post columnist David R. Broder, no less.
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