Historical Dictionary of Baseball

Historical Dictionary of Baseball is a comprehensive reference work of all things baseball and includes noteworthy players, teams, rules, owners, leagues, and more. A volume in the ongoing Historical Dictionaries of Sports series, the work is designed as “the perfect starting point for anyone doing research”. The book aptly fits the definition. The work comprises an editor's foreword, brief preface, four pages of acronyms and abbreviations, a 22 page chronology, a lengthy introduction, an A to Z dictionary, 12 appendices, and an extensive bibliography. The heart of the 500 plus pages is the 24 chapters representing each letter of the...