The Dickson Baseball Dictionary 3e

Author : Paul Dickson
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 1001 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2011-06-13
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780393073492

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The Dickson Baseball Dictionary (Third Edition) by Paul Dickson Pdf

The definitive work on the language of baseball—one of the “Five Best Baseball Books” (Wall Street Journal). Hailed as “a staggering piece of scholarship” (Wall Street Journal) and “an indispensable guide to the language of baseball” (San Diego Union-Tribune), The Dickson Baseball Dictionary has become an invaluable resource for those who love the game. Drawing on dozens of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century periodicals, as well as contemporary sources, Dickson’s brilliant, illuminating definitions trace the earliest appearances of terms both well known and obscure. This edition includes more than 10,000 terms with 18,000 individual entries, and more than 250 photos. This “impressively comprehensive” (The Nation) book will delight everyone from the youngest fan to the hard-core aficionado.

Author : Paul Dickson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Baseball
ISBN : OCLC:1033653895

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The Dickson Baseball Dictionary by Paul Dickson Pdf

Author : Paul Dickson
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 1000 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2009-02-24
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780393066814

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The Dickson Baseball Dictionary 3e by Paul Dickson Pdf

Draws on extensive historical and contemporary sources to provide definitions for terms from their earliest appearances, in a latest edition that has been expanded to include more than 18,000 entries.

Author : Paul Dickson
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0156005808

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The New Dickson Baseball Dictionary by Paul Dickson Pdf

Still not sure what makes a sinker different from a curve? Can't remember when the M&M boys played with the Yankees? Want to know where the "seventh-inning stretch" comes from? Then you've done the right thing by picking up this book - the most complete collection of baseball terms and slang to be found between two covers. Impeccably researched, The New Dickson Baseball Dictionary covers all the bases.

Author : Paul Dickson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2004-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0756778271

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The Dickson Baseball Dictionary by Paul Dickson Pdf

This fascinating compilation contains all kinds of definitions and descriptions of baseball terms from the most mundane to the most arcane, with plenty of colorful and clever ones in between. It1s a quirky mix of rules, definitions, historical allusions, how and when various baseball expressions began, and stuff that1s just plain fun to know. Wonderful illustrations from the living literature of baseball and a slew of photos and drawings further illuminate the men and the scenes that have enriched the language of the game. A gold mine of information . . . sheer entertaining reading on every page.

Author : Paul Dickson
Publisher : HarperResource
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Baseball
ISBN : 0062720252

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Baseball's Greatest Quotations by Paul Dickson Pdf

From the author of The Dickson Baseball Dictionary comes a veritable Bartlett's of baseball--more than 5,000 quotes about the national pastime from sources ranging from Stengel to Scott Fitzgerald, Bogart to Bombeck. Includes more than 200 photos and illustrations.

Author : Paul Dickson
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781496217875

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The Hidden Language of Baseball by Paul Dickson Pdf

Baseball is set apart from other sports by many things, but few are more distinctive than the intricate systems of coded language that govern action on the field and give baseball its unique appeal. During a nine‐inning game, more than one thousand silent instructions are given—from catcher to pitcher, coach to batter, fielder to fielder, umpire to umpire—and without this speechless communication the game would simply not be the same. Baseball historian Paul Dickson examines the rich legacy of baseball’s hidden language, offering fans everywhere a smorgasbord of history and anecdote. Baseball’s tradition of signing grew out of the signal flags used by ships and hand signals used by soldiers during battle and were first used in games during the Civil War. The Hartford Dark Blues appear to be the first team to steal signs, introducing a larcenous obsession that, as Dickson delightfully chronicles, has given the game some of its most historic—and outlandish—moments. In this revised and expanded edition through the 2018 season, Dickson discusses recent developments and incidents, including the illegal use of new technology to swipe signs. A roster of baseball’s greatest names and games, past and present, echoes throughout, making The Hidden Language of Baseball a unique window on the history of our national pastime.

Author : Henry Walker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:779012451

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Illustrated Baseball Dictionary for Young People by Henry Walker Pdf

Author : Steven Elliott Tripp
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781442251922

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Ty Cobb, Baseball, and American Manhood by Steven Elliott Tripp Pdf

Ty Cobb called baseball a “red-blooded game for red-blooded men,” warning that “molly coddles had better stay out.” By this, Cobb meant that baseball was the ultimate expression of the masculine ideal – a game of aggression, rivalry, physical and mental dexterity, self-reliance, and primal honor. For over twenty years, Cobb expressed his fierce brand of manhood in ballparks throughout the American Northeast, gaining for himself a level of celebrity that was unsurpassed in the early twentieth century. Fans idolized Cobb not only because he was the best player in the game, but because his boisterous and combative style of play satisfied their desire for exhibitions of visceral manhood. They found in Cobb an antidote for what they feared were the corrupting influences of over-civilization. With balance, precision, and empathy, Steven Elliott Tripp brings the era to life in a narrative Publisher’s Weekly has called “stunning.” In contrast to recent biographies of Cobb that have tried to minimize his more brutish behavior and minimize his racial antipathies, Tripp contextualizes Cobb, placing him squarely within the cultural milieu of both the rural South of his birth and the Northern sporting culture of his professional career. Moreover, Tripp’s reconstruction of early twentieth-century sporting culture isolates an important source of modern America’s culture of hyper-masculinity. Ty Cobb, Baseball, and American Manhood is both an important work of social and cultural history and an absorbing tale of ambition and the quest for dominance. Tripp has written the rare narrative that is as appealing to scholars as it is to general readers and sports enthusiasts.

Author : Douglas J. Gladstone
Publisher : Word Association Publishers
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781595715128

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A Bitter Cup of Coffee by Douglas J. Gladstone Pdf

This painstakingly researched book by Douglas J. Gladstone examines the plight of 874 Major League Baseball players who played between 1947 and 1979, all with brief trials in the majors, careers figuratively "just long enough to drink a cup of coffee." Since 1980, Major League Baseball players have needed one day of service credit for health benefits and 43 days of service credit to be eligible for a retirement allowance, but those former ballplayers who played during the 1947-1979 seasons were not included retroactively in the amended vesting requirement, and so receive no pensions for the time they gave to our national pastime. These men, the author suggests, have gulped bitter cups of coffee. In his careful examination of this issue, which includes many interviews with former players and some poignant stories of their plight, Gladstone asks his readers to examine our national relationship to sports and its heroes, as well as our relationships with those who precede us in the game of life. A lifelong baseball fan, DOUGLAS J. GLADSTONE is a journalist by training, whose published articles have appeared in the Chicago Sun Times, Baseball Digest and the San Diego Jewish World, among others. This is his first book. DAVE MARASH (Foreword) has been a working journalist for more than 50 years. Best known for his 16 years as a correspondent for ABC News Nightline, Marash won Emmy Awards for his coverage of the wars in Nicaragua and Bosnia, the Oklahoma City bombing, and the explosion that downed TWA Flight 800. He anchored the opening season of Baseball Tonight on ESPN and did play-by-play coverage of the New York Knicks and Rangers.

Author : Janet C. Arrowood
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-22
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781475824773

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Plain Language, Please by Janet C. Arrowood Pdf

Writing in plain language is not something they teach in you school. But it is an art and a science, and you can learn how to do it and apply it—how to write for results. This book provides a step-by-step, example-filled guide to the critical aspects of writing in plain English—plain language—the type of writing people understand and to which they respond favorably. Not many people refuse to read a newspaper because it is “too easy,” but lots of people avoid technical publications and barbecue grill instructions because they are “too hard” or unintelligible. Good writers are made, not born. The examples and information in this book will guide you along the process of becoming one of those “good” writers…and you may even find yourself looking forward to your next writing project.

Author : James E. O'Neill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Baseball
ISBN : 0578010208

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Bilingual Baseball Dictionary by James E. O'Neill Pdf

Author : Stephen Weinstein
Publisher : Random House Reference
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Baseball
ISBN : 0679750746

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The Random House Pro Baseball Dictionary by Stephen Weinstein Pdf

From the legends to the latest--quick stats and bios for more than 1,400 baseball players, coaches, and managers--in fact everything a fan might want to know about professional major league baseball in a handy, easy-to-use vest-pocket reference. Includes statistics through the 1993 World Series.

Author : Patrick Thornton,Walter T. Champion Jr.,Lawrence Ruddell,Larry Ruddell
Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Publishers
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2011-04-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780763743840

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Sports Ethics for Sports Management Professionals by Patrick Thornton,Walter T. Champion Jr.,Lawrence Ruddell,Larry Ruddell Pdf

Directed at future sports executives and sports managers, the book contains numerous case studies that allow students to apply the ethical decision-making process to a sports-related ethical dispute. Unlike other texts that spend too much time discussing ethical theories, Sports Ethics for Sports Management Professionals addresses the important issues sports professionals may actually encounter during their career --Book Jacket.

Author : Patrick Ercolano
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Baseball
ISBN : 013345083X

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Fungoes, Floaters, and Fork Balls by Patrick Ercolano Pdf