*Amazon’s top baseball titles, week ending 8/1

August 1, 2008

General:

  1. Yankee for Life: My 40-year Journey in Pinstripes, by Bobby Murcer. T
  2. Yankee Stadium: The Official Retrospective, by Santasiere and Vancil.
  3. Living in the Black, by John Feinstein.
  4. Yankee Stadium: A Tribute: 85 Years of Memories, 1923-2008, by Les Krantz.
  5. The 33-Year Old Rookie, by Chris Coste

Essays and Writings:

  1. You Can Learn a Lot by Watching: What I’ve Learned about Teamwors from the Yankees and Life, by Yogi Berra and Dave Kaplan
  2. Catch Every Ball: How to Handle Life’s Pitches, by Johnny Bench
  3. Vindicated, by Jose Canseco
  4. Oh Holy Cow! The Selected Verse of Phil Rizzuto
  5. Faithful to Fenway: Believing in Boston, Baseball and America’s Most Beloved Ballpark, by Michael Borer.

History:

  1. Yankee Stadium: The Official Retrospective, by Santasiere and Vancil
  2. Living in the Black, by John Feinstein.
  3. Yankee Stadium: A Tribute: 85 Years of Memories, 1923-2008, by Les Krantz
  4. The 33-Year Old Rookie, by Chris Coste.
  5. Rob Neyer’s Big Book of Baseball Legends: The Truth, the Lies, and Everything Else

Statistics:

  1. The ESPN Baseball Encyclopedia, Fifth Edition
  2. Baseball Prospectus 2008
  3. The Bill James Gold Mine 2008
  4. Mets by The Numbers: A Complete Team History of the Amazin’ Mets by Uniform Number, by Springer and Silverman
  5. Baseball America 2008 Prospect Handbook
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