Author

Paul Dickson

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45 books

Books

  1. Bill Veeck: Baseball's Greatest Maverick 2012
  2. The Joy of Keeping Score: How Scoring the Game Has Influenced and Enhanced the History of Baseball 1996
  3. Sputnik: The Launch of the Space Race 2001
  4. The Unwritten Rules of Baseball: The Etiquette, Conventional Wisdom, and Axiomatic Codes of Our National Pastime 2009
  5. The Bonus Army: An American Epic 2004
40 more
  1. The Hidden Language of Baseball 2003
  2. Leo Durocher: Baseball's Prodigal Son
  3. War Slang: American Fighting Words and Phrases from the Civil War to the Gulf War 1994
  4. Authorisms: Words Wrought by Writers 2014
  5. Slang 1990
  6. Toasts 1991
  7. The Dickson Baseball Dictionary 2009
  8. Words from the White House: Words and Phrases Coined or Popularized by America's Presidents 2013
  9. The New Dickson Baseball Dictionary 1989
  10. Labels for Locals: What to Call People from Abilene to Zimbabwe 1999
  11. Future File 1977
  12. The great American ice cream book 1972
  13. The Official Rules 1978
  14. There Are Alligators in Our Sewers: And Other American Credos 1983
  15. Drunk 2009
  16. Jokes 1984
  17. Contraband Cocktails: How America Drank When It Wasn't Supposed To 2015
  18. On This Spot: Pinpointing the Past in Washington, D.C. 1992
  19. Timelines 1990
  20. The book of Thanksgiving 1995
  21. A collector's compendium of rare and unusual, bold and beautiful, odd and whimsical names 1986
  22. OldTime Camp Stoves and Fireplaces 2012
  23. Words 1982
  24. A dictionary of the space age 2009
  25. The complete book of toasts 1998
  26. The electronic battlefield 1976
  27. Chow 1978
  28. Dickson's joke treasury 1992
  29. From Elvis to e-mail 1999
  30. Myth-informed 1993

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