The third edition of The Dickson Baseball Dictionary has 10,000 terms, with 18,000 definitions.
It's an ongoing labor of love for author Paul Dickson.
"It's astonishing to me that baseball is able to come up with a term for almost anything that it wants to come up with," Dickson tells NPR's Melissa Block.
New entries in the third edition include bean-up, cookie jar, human growth hormone and steroid.
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James Ellroy recommends From Here to Eternity's damned landscape: Hawaii before Pearl Harbor.
America's Finest News Source has released a book celebrating its 21 years of satire (with a wink).
The 60th annual National Book Awards were handed out Wednesday night in New York.
It's been all Palin all the time ever since the former Alaska governor unveiled her new memoir.
Agassi and Palin bios; Stephen King's newest, Zadie Smith essays, and the science of religion.
Recommendations range from a collection of Afghan proverbs, to a history of the CIA's involvement.
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