* TWIBB — November 6, 2009

November 6, 2009

This week in baseball books, featuring the best-sellers according to Amazon.com on Friday, November 6.

Title Rank
General
Game Six: Cincinnati, Boston, and the 1975 World Series: The Triumph of America’s Pastime, by Mark Frost 1
The Bill James Handbook 2010 2
The Machine: A Hot Team, a Legendary Season, and a Heart-stopping World Series: The Story of the 1975 Cincinnati Reds, by Joe Posnanski 3
Sixty Feet, Six Inches: A Hall of Fame Pitcher & a Hall of Fame Hitter Talk about How the Game is Played, by Bob Gibson, Reggie Jackson, and Lonnie Wheeler 4
Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game, by Michael Lewis 5
Essays and Writing
Sixty Feet Six Inches
1
Moneyball 2
Now I Can Die in Peace: How The Sports Guy Found Salvation Thanks to the World Champion (Twice!) Red Sox, by Bill Simmons
3
The Hardball Times Baseball Annual 2010 4
Beyond Belief: Finding the Strength to Come Back, by Josh Hamilton 5
History
Game Six
1
The Machine 2
Sixty Feet, Six Inches 3
Now I Can Die in Peace
4
Perfect: Don Larsen’s Miraculous World Series Game and the Men Who Made It Happen, by Lew Paper 5
Statistics
The Bill James Handbook 2010 1
Watching Baseball Smarter: A Professional Fan’s Guide for Beginners, Semi-experts, and Deeply Serious Geeks, by Zack Hample 2
The Hardball Times Annual 2010 3
Baseball America 2010 Prospect Handbook: The Comprehensive Guide to Rising Stars from the Definitive Source on Prospects 4
The Book: Playing the Percentages in Baseball, by Tango et al 5

Analysis: Now that the World Series is over (watching the parade as I type), things are stabilizing, with a mixture of topics populating the top five spots in each category.

Again, there are no baseball titles in Amazon’s top 100 bestseller list, nor among the NY Times top 35 non-fictional titles.

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