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Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-06-13 - Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

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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
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The Hidden Language of Baseball
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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
Baseball's Greatest Quotations Rev. Ed.
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Baseball has always had its share of colorful characters, and over the years they have expressed themselves in eminently quotable ways. In this treasury of more