Paul Dickson

Author of The Joy of Keeping Score: How Scoring the Game Has Influenced and Enhanced the History of Baseball

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Title	Copies	Reviews	Ratings	Average	Median	Std. dev.
The Joy of Keeping Score: How Scoring the Game Has Influenced and Enhanced the History of Baseball	131	3	22	3.73	4.00	0.93
Sputnik: The Shock of the Century	100	1	13	3.77	4.00	0.70
The Dickson Baseball Dictionary	82	2	9	4.61	5.00	0.66
Words	113		9	3.83	4.00	0.58
The Bonus Army : An American Epic	72	2	9	4.06	4.00	0.64
The Official Rules	107		8	3.44	3.25	0.46
The Hidden Language of Baseball	43		7	3.64	3.50	0.69
Slang: The Topical Dictionary of Americanisms	78		4	4.25	4.00	0.43
Family Words: The Dictionary for People Who Don't Know a Frone from a Brinkle	14		4	3.88	3.75	0.74
Baseball's Greatest Quotations	52		4	3.75	4.00	1.30
The Unwritten Rules of Baseball: The Etiquette, Conventional Wisdom, and Axiomatic Codes of Our National Pastime	39	1	3	3.17	3.00	0.24
NAMES	17		3	4.67	5.00	0.47
Dickson's Word Treasury: A Connoisseur's Collection of Old and New, Weird and Wonderful, Useful and Outlandish Words	21		3	4.33	5.00	0.94
The library in America : a celebration in words and pictures	36		3	4.00	4.00	0.82
What's in a Name?: Reflections of an Irrepressible Name Collector	33		3	3.67	4.00	0.47
The Official Rules and Explanations: The Original Guide to Surviving the Electronic Age With Wit, Wisdom, and Laughter	24		2	3.00	3.00
There are alligators in our sewers, and other American credos	15		2	2.75	2.75	0.75
War Slang: American Fighting Words and Phrases	46		2	3.50	3.50	1.50
From Elvis to E-Mail: Trends, Events, and Trivia from the Postwar Era to the End of the Century	16		2	4.50	4.50	0.50
The New Dickson Baseball Dictionary	39		2	4.50	4.50	0.50
Toasts: Over 1,500 of the Best Toasts, Sentiments, Blessings, and Graces	43		2	2.50	2.50	1.50
Waiter, There's a Fly in My Soup	4		1	5.00	5.00
The Electronic Battlefield (Open Forum)	3		1	4.00	4.00
The future file: A guide for people with one foot in the 21st century	9		1	5.00	5.00
The official explanations	40	1	1	3.50	3.50
The Worth Book of Softball: A Celebration of America's True National Pastime	4		1	4.00	4.00
The Official Rules of Life	6		1	4.00	4.00
The Future of the Workplace the Coming Revolution in Jobs	1		1	2.00	2.00
The Great American Ice Cream Book	17		1	4.00	4.00
The New Official Rules	18		1	3.00	3.00
Labels for Locals: What to Call People from Abilene to Zimbabwe	25		1	5.00	5.00
The official rules for golfers	9		1	3.00	3.00
AIT - The Basics	1
Bill Veeck: Baseball's Greatest Maverick	11
THE UNWRITTEN RULES OF BASEBALL	1
A Dictionary of the Space Age (New Series in NASA History)	2
Drunk: The Definitive Drinker's Dictionary	7
The Volvo Guide to Halls of Fame: The Traveler's Handbook of North America's Most Inspiring and Entertaining Attractions	3
The mature person's guide to kites, yo-yos, frisbees and other childlike diversions	1
Chow: A Cook's Tour of Military Food	4
Gay Boy Returns	2
Baseball Is . . .: Defining the National Pastime	1
The complete book of toasts : [over 1,500 of the best toasts for every occasion]	2
the dickson baseball dictionary third edition	1
Electronic Battlefield, The	1
Out of this world: American space photography	10
Too Much Saxon Violence: And Other Important Issues for Punsters	8
The Official Rules at Work: The Principles, Maxims, and Instructions That Define Your Life on the Job	4
Timelines	19
The Congress Dictionary: The Ways and Meanings of Capitol Hill.	18
Think Tanks	9
The Official Rules At Home	8
Dickson's Joke Treasury: An Anthology of Gags, Bits, Puns and Jests-- And How To Tell Them	6
The Official Rules Explained	1
The Book of Thanksgiving	1
The Official Rules for Lawyers, Politicians and Everyone They Torment	2
What do you call a person from-- ? : a dictionary of resident names	4
Words : a connoisseur's collection of old and new, weird and wonderful, useful and outlandish words	1