* Amazon's top baseball titles, as of Aug. 26

September 2, 2008

Sorry, a little late on this one. Holiday, and all.

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General:

  1. Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game, by Michael Lewis
  2. Yankee Stadium, the Official Retrospective, by Al Santasiere
  3. Watching Baseball Smarter, by Zack Hample.
  4. The Natural, by Bernard Malamud
  5. The Mental Game of Baseball: A Guide to Peak Performance, by H.A. Dorfman

Essays and Writings:

  1. Ball Four, by Jim Bouton
  2. Heads-Up Baseball : Playing the Game One Pitch at a Time, by Hanson and Ravizza
  3. Sports Illustrated: The Baseball Book
  4. The Yogi Book, by Yogi Berra
  5. The Mental Keys to Hitting: A Handbook of Strategies for Performance Enhancement, by H.A. Dorfman

History:

  1. Yankee Stadium, the Official Retrospective, by Al Santasiere
  2. The 33-Year-Old Rookie, by Chris Coste
  3. Rob Neyer’s Big Book of Baseball Legends: The Truth, the Lies, and Everything Else
  4. Eight Men Out, by Eliot Asinof
  5. Summer of ’49, by David Halberstam

Statistics:

  1. Watching Baseball Smarter, by Zack Hample.
  2. Baseball Prospectus 2008: The Essential Guide to the 2008 Baseball Season (Baseball Prospectus), by Steven Goldman and Christina Kahrl
  3. The ESPN Baseball Encyclopedia, Fifth
  4. The Book: Playing the Percentages in Baseball, by Tom Tango
  5. Baseball Between the Numbers; Why Everything You Know About the Game is Wrong, by Baseball Prospectus
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