Dictionary of Sports and Games Terminology

The specialized jargon of some sports can be quite esoteric. Non-Americans, for example, are likely puzzled by baseball terms such as bunt, cut-off man, and safety squeeze, while the non-British may pause over cricket''s Chinaman, doosra, golden duck, off-break, popping crease, and yorker.

This new dictionary gives the definitions of more than 8,000 terms used in sports and games from around the...