Tomorrow night is major league baseball’s All-Star game.
Did you ever consider how many words and phrases in our everyday language have their origins in baseball?
We all know what it means, for example, to be giving a big presentation and be a big success at it- they say you hit a home run.
Or if it fell flat, you struck out.
Those are just two of the thousands of baseball terms and slang that writer Paul Dickson found when he put together his definitive book called The Dickson Baseball Dictionary.
It’s been out for over 30 years, but it’s still the definitive book on the subject.
Paul and I go way back, and when we talked in 1989 about The Dickson Baseball Dctionary it was one of our several interviews over the years.
So here now, from 1989, Paul Dickson.
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