The definitive work on the language of baseball—one of the “Five Best Baseball Books” (Wall Street Journal). Hailed as “a staggering piece of scholarshi

Draws on extensive historical and contemporary sources to provide definitions for terms from their earliest appearances, in a latest edition that has been expan

This fascinating compilation contains all kinds of definitions and descriptions of baseball terms from the most mundane to the most arcane, with plenty of color

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 wa