With more than 225 photographs and thousands of pieces of baseball trivia, this renowned, comprehensive reference to the sport has been updated to include revised definitions of terms, as well as a thesaurus and a thorough bibliography. Simultaneous. 20,000 first printing. Here is "an updated edition of sportswriter Paul Dickson's collection of baseball lexica. More than a source for settling trivia disputes, the 592-page tome has illustrations of seldom-seen memorabilia (a button from the N.Y. Black Yankees), photos from private collections, and stories behind the slang long bandied about in dugouts (Did you know the term 'boys of summer' comes from a Dylan Thomas poem?)." -- Life