New York: Edward Burlingame Books (An Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers), 1991. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Format is approximately 7.5 inches by 9.375 inches. xviii, [2], 524 pages. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index. Black mark on bottom edge. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Paul Dickson (born July 30,1939) is a freelance writer of more than 65 non-fiction books, mostly on American English language, history, and popular culture. He is a founding member and former president of Washington Independent Writers and a member of the National Press Club. Dickson coined the term "word word". For his published work on baseball, The Washington Post has described Dickson as "baseball's answer to Noah Webster or, at the very least, William Safire." In May 1979, he appeared on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson to promote his book The Official Rules, which detailed the history of Murphy's Law and similar aphorisms. Carson and Dickson spent time sharing similar sayings that they enjoyed. He has worked as a freelance writer since 1968, authoring more than 65 books as well as articles for a wide variety of publications. More

New York: Walker & Company, 2012. First U.S. Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. x, 434, [4] pages. Illustrations. Footnotes. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Inscribed by author on title page. Small tear at top of pages 3-6. Much more than an eccentric baseball owner, Bill Veeck was a transformational figure in the history of baseball. Nonconformist, visionary, and showman extraordinaire, he spent a lifetime challenging baseball's staid establishment. Paul Dickson has been an independent writer for almost 50 years during which time he has produced more than 60 non-fiction books and numerous newspaper and magazine articles on a variety of subjects. Dickson's Bill Veeck--Baseball's Greatest Maverick received five awards including: the Jerome Holtzman Award from the Chicago Baseball Museum, the Reader’s Choice Award for the best baseball book of 2012 from the Special Libraries Association and the Casey Award from Spitball magazine, also for the best baseball book of 2012. More

New York: Walker & Company, 2003. First Printing. 230, illus., glossary, notes, bibliography, index. More

New York: Delacorte Press, 1980. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xiii, [3], 270, [2] pages. Illustrations. Glossary of Important Business Terms. The Murphy Center Newsletter. Appendix. Index. Signed by the author on fep. Pages xi/xii and xiii/blank have some wrinkling/creasing. Some bottom edge soiling. Filled with such special sections as those devoted to the totally ridiculous though natural laws of bureaucracy, medicine, and the law, and complete with job-performance evaluations tests, Official Diagrams, and even recent findings of Murphylogical research, The Official Explanations is the lastest word on "institutional tomfoolery, human imperfectibility, and the perversity of inanimate objects." "The all new, annotated, illustrated and even more definitive collection of laws, principles and instructions for getting along in the real world." More

New York: Walker Publishing Company, 2001. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. [10], 310 pages. Illustrations. Diagrams. Footnotes. Bibliography. Index. Pencil erasure on half-title. Paul Dickson (born 1939 in Yonkers, New York) is a freelance writer of more than 65 non-fiction books, mostly on American English language and popular culture. He has written many articles on a wide variety of subjects, including baseball and the military. He is a founding member and former president of Washington Independent Writers and a member of the National Press Club. Dickson coined the term "word word". In May 1979, he appeared on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson to promote his book The Official Rules, which detailed the history of Murphy's Law and similar aphorisms. For years, former Nazi Wernher von Braun, who ran the U.S. Army's missile program, lobbied incessantly that his Rocket Team should be handed responsibility for the first Earth-orbiting satellite. More

Washington, DC: The Washington Monthly Company, 1971. Reprint. Reprinted from June 1970 (Kargis) and May 1971 issues. Wraps. 9, 3 p. Includes illustrations. 8.5 by 5.5 inches. Printing inverted on second article. More

New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2009. Third Edition [stated]. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. xxiv, 974, [8] pages. Preface to the Third Edition. 263 Illustrations. Introduction. Afterword. Annotated Bibliography. Format is approximately 7.25 inches by 10.5 inches and is about 2.5 inches wide! For his published work on baseball, The Washington Post has described Dickson as "baseball's answer to Noah Webster or, at the very least, William Safire. Because of its deep and broad coverage, its authoritativeness and its rich and colorful descriptions, The Dickson Baseball Dictionary will prove indispensable to baseball fans and word lovers alike. That rarest of sports books, a valuable reference work that provides absorbing and enlightening reading. (Sports Illustrated) Hailed as a staggering piece of scholarship (Wall Street Journal) The Dickson Baseball Dictionary is the most complete resource on the lexicon of baseball in the English language. More than 200 photos throughout the book, many rare and previously unpublished, lluminate various historical and contemporary terms. More