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Paul Dickson

Paul Dickson is the author of several classic baseball books, including The Dickson Baseball Dictionary, The Unwritten Rules of Baseball, The Hidden Language of Baseball, and The Joy of Keeping Score. He is also the author of the seminal narrative history Sputnik: The Shock of the Century and the coauthor of the acclaimed The Bonus Army: An American Epic. He lives in Garrett Park, Maryland.

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Born 1939-07-30

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  • Cover of: Sputnik: The Shock of the Century

    Cover of edition sputniklaunchofs0000dick Cover of edition sputnikshockofce0000dick Cover of edition sputnikshockofce00dick First published in 2001 — 9 editions
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  • Cover of: Slang: the authoritative topic-by-topic dictionary of American lingoes from all walks of life

    Cover of edition slangauthoritati0000dick Cover of edition slang00paul Cover of edition slangtopicbytopi0000dick First published in 1990 — 7 editions
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  • Cover of: Unwritten Rules of Baseball: The Etiquette, Conventional Wisdom, and Axiomatic Codes of Our National Pastime

    First published in 2009 — 6 editions
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  • Cover of: Words: A connoisseur's collection of old and new, weird and wonderful, useful and outlandish words

    First published in 1982 — 5 editions
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  • Cover of: The great American ice cream book

    First published in 1972 — 5 editions
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  • Cover of: War slang: American fighting words and phrases since the Civil War

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  • Cover of: Drunk: the definitve drinker's dictionary

    First published in 2009 — 4 editions
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  • Cover of: Labels for locals: what to call people from Abilene to Zimbabwe

    Cover of edition labelsforlocalsw00dick First published in 1997 — 4 editions
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  • Cover of: The Dickson baseball dictionary

    Cover of edition dicksonbaseballd0000dick_a2w1 Cover of edition dicksonbaseballd00dick First published in 1989 — 4 editions
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  • Cover of: Great American Ice Cream Book, The

    First published in 1972 — 3 editions
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  • Cover of: Work Revolution

    First published in 2017 — 3 editions
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  • Cover of: Official Rules

    First published in 1980 — 3 editions
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  • Cover of: Family Words: A Dictionary of the Secret Language of Families (How America Speaks series)

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  • Cover of: Toasts

    First published in 1982 — 3 editions
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  • Cover of: The joy of keeping score: how scoring the game has influenced and enhanced the history of baseball

    Cover of edition joyofkeepingscor0000dick_u9r4 Cover of edition joyofkeepingscor0000dick First published in 1996 — 3 editions
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  • Cover of: Journalese: A Dictionary for Deciphering the News

    First published in 2012 — 2 editions
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  • Cover of: Hidden Language of Baseball: How Signs and Sign-Stealing Have Influenced the Course of Our National Pastime

    First published in 2005 — 2 editions
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  • Cover of: Those Were the Days: Weird and Wacky Ads of Yesteryear

    First published in 2012 — 2 editions
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  • Cover of: The Rise of the G.I. Army, 1940-1941: The Forgotten Story of How America Forged a Powerful Army Before Pearl Harbor

    First published in 2020 — 2 editions
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  • Cover of: Baseball's greatest quotations

    First published in 1991 — 2 editions
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Born 1939-07-30

Subjects

History, American wit and humor, Quotations, maxims, Dictionaries, Baseball, English language, Toasts, United States, Americanisms, Baseball, dictionaries, Language, Politics and government, Quotations, Slang, Biography, English language, slang, dictionaries, Glossaries, vocabularies, Golf, Humor, Job satisfaction, Military art and science, Miscellanea, Personnel management, Work, Working class

Places

United States, East Anglia, East Anglia (England), England, U.S., Washington (D.C.)

People

Bill Veeck, Harvey Samuel Firestone (1868-1938), Leo Durocher (1905-1991)

Time

20th century, 1945-, 1945-1989, 1989-

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January 20, 2024 Edited by bitnapper Edited without comment.
September 30, 2020 Edited by MARC Bot add ids
March 11, 2018 Edited by mountainaxe1 Edited without comment.
May 7, 2014 Edited by KirstinM added author website
April 1, 2008 Created by an anonymous user initial import