Quick Take: There’s a word for that

November 19, 2025

I came across this Substack article — “Say It Again, But Different: Sweepers, Splinkers, Slurves, and the Language That Keeps Baseball Current” by Doug Glanville. It brought to mind The Baseball Dictionary by Paul Dickson, one of his many books on the game.

Oddly enough, on the same day, one of my Google alerts for various baseball topics came up with this sentimental opinion piece — “Reflections on a lifetime of baseball” — in the Baltimore Sun by Dickson himself.

What are the odds?

Here’s my Bookshelf Conversation with Dickson and Glanville.

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