Book of Donmon Teith

Still not sure what makes a sinker different from a curve? Can't remember when the M&M boys played with the Yankees? Want to know where the "seventh-inning stre

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

Baseball is set apart from other sports by many things, but few are more distinctive than the intricate systems of coded language that govern action on the fiel

Collects over two thousand synonyms for various states of intoxication, including capped off, materially altered, and zambonied.

Entertaining, eminently readable volume compiles words and phrases coined or popularized by American presidents. Alphabetical listings feature a definition and