Today is a big day for Ballpark Digest: We’re celebrating the official release of The Baseball Thesaurus in an expanded third edition, as Jesse Goldberg-Strasser details baseball’s colorful terms and history.
Baseball is a sport with its own lingo and jargon, a colorful patois developed over decades and millions of games. In this new edition of The Baseball Thesaurus, enhanced with even more rare photos and little-known anecdotes, Jesse Goldberg-Strassler–storyteller, commentator, voice–delves into the language of the National Pastime. From Vin Scully’s philosophy on no-hitters to Red Barber’s classic turns of phrase and a definitive listing of broadcasters’ trademark home-run calls. Goldberg-Strassler explains baseball’s colorful terms. Why is a bunt called a bunt and why do pitchers warm up in the bullpen? It’s all here in an expanded Third Edition.
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Who should read The Baseball Thesaurus? It’s for the media linguist whose job relies upon baseball jargon, the radio listener, the blog reader, the talk-show caller, the minor-league diehard, the Strat-O-Matic connoisseur, the seventh-inning stretcher, the stereotype breaker, the crank, the postgame fireworks enthusiast, the t-ball coach, the seamhead, the baseball Annie, the hot-stove moper, the bandwagoner, the purist, the casual rooter who enjoys a quick tidbit and has no need to attend both games of a doubleheader, and the fan who takes pride in scoring the game and teaching the tradition to others.
“A home run is never just a home run,” says Goldberg-Strassler. “It’s a roundtripper, a four-bagger, a dinger, a tater, or a jack. Baseball’s language is unmatched in both its color and its poetry.”
If you’re a regular Ballpark Digest reader, you know Jesse Goldberg-Strassler is a true treasure, and his passion for America’s Pastime shows through in every page of The Baseball Thesaurus. If you’re a fan of the game, you owe yourself a copy!
For more information and to order The Baseball Thesaurus, go to the August Publications website.