Paul Dickson

Baseball is...: Defining the National Pastime - Dover Baseball Paul Dickson Green edition

Jacket Description/Back: From Yogi Berra's rib-tickling "Berraisms" to Walt Whitman's "Baseball is our game--the American game," this ideal gift for baseball fans drives home the fact that baseball is a game of many interpretations. It features hundreds of wisecracking, philosophical, nostalgic, and above all, entertaining quips and observations. Sources include players, their wives, managers, authors, and other enthusiasts, observers, and commentators, who remark on every aspect of what our national pastime has been and what it is today. Dover (2011) original publication. ALSO AVAILABLE Voices from the Great Black Baseball Leagues, John Holway. 448pp. 53/8 x 81/2. 0-486-47541-7Bums, Peter Golenbock. 544pp. 61/8 x 91/4. 0-486-47735-5Dynasty, Peter Golenbock. 720pp. 61/8 x 91/4. 0-486-47736-3For current price information write to Dover Publications, or log on to www.doverpublications.com and see every Dover book in print. Publisher Marketing: From Yogi Berra's rib-tickling "Berraisms" to Walt Whitman's "Baseball is our game -- the American game," this ideal gift for baseball fans drives home the fact that baseball is a game of many interpretations. It features hundreds of wisecracking, philosophical, nostalgic, and above all, entertaining quips and observations. Sources include players, their wives, managers, authors, and other enthusiasts, observers, and commentators, who remark on every aspect of what our national pastime has been and what it is today.

Contributor Bio:  Dickson, Paul Paul Dickson has written eight bat and ball books (one on softball, seven on baseball) and is working on the third edition of his Dickson Baseball Dictionary, as well as a new work, The Unwritten Rules of Baseball. He also writes narrative 20th century American history and compiles word books. He lives in Garrett Park, Maryland, with his wife, Nancy.