* Amazon's top baseball titles, week ending 8/8

August 10, 2008

General:

  1. Moneyball, by Michael Lewis
  2. Yankee for Life: My 40-year Journey in Pinstripes, by Bobby Murcer.
  3. Yankee Stadium: The Official Retrospective, by Santasiere and Vancil.
  4. The Natural, by Bernard Malamud.
  5. The Science of Hitting, by Ted Williams and John Underwood.

Essays and Writings:

  1. Ball Four, by Jim Bouton.
  2. Sports Illustrated: The Baseball Book.
  3. The Mental Keys to Hitting: A Handbook of Strategies for Performance Enhancement by H.A. Dorfman.
  4. The Yogi Book: I Really Didn’t Say Everything I Said, by Yogi Berra.
  5. The New Bill James Baseball Abstract.

History:

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

Statistics:

  1. Watching Baseball Smarter, by Zack Hample.
  2. The ESPN Baseball Encyclopedia, Fifth Edition.
  3. The Book: Playing the Percentages in Baseball, by Tango, Lichtman. Dolphin, and Palmer.
  4. The New Bill James Historical Abstract.
  5. The Bill James Gold Mine 2008.
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1 * Mathew James August 11, 2008 at 4:20 am

Great post, it was very informative. I think its a must read.

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