* TWIBB — November 13

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

Title	Rank
General
The Bill James Handbook 2010 (Ranks 613 in books)	1
The Machine: A Hot Team, a Legendary Season, and a Heart-stopping World Series: The Story of the 1975 Cincinnati Reds, by Joe Posnanski (709)	2
Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game, by Michael Lewis (970)	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(1,030)	4
The Yankee Years, by Joe Torre and Tom Verducci (1,249)	5
Essays and Writing
Moneyball	1
Sixty Feet Six Inches	2
Now I Can Die in Peace: How The Sports Guy Found Salvation Thanks to the World Champion (Twice!) Red Sox, by Bill Simmons (1,980)	3
The Hardball Times Baseball Annual 2010 (9,251)	4
As They See ‘Em: A Fan’s Travels in the Land of Umpires, by Bill Weber (12,531)	5
History
The Machine	1
Sixty Feet, Six Inches	2
Now I Can Die in Peace	3
Game Six: Cincinnati, Boston, and the 1975 World Series: The Triumph of America’s Pastime, by Mark Frost (2,475)	4
The First Fall Classic: The Red Sox, the Giants and the Cast of Players, Pugs and Politicos Who Re-Invented the World Series in 1912, by Mike Vacarro (3,086)	5
Statistics
The Bill James Handbook 2010	1
The Hardball Times Annual 2010 (9,251)	2
Baseball Prospectus 2008: The Essential Guide to the 2008 Baseball Season (9,504)	3
2010 Baseball Forecaster (10,553)	4
Watching Baseball Smarter: A Professional Fan’s Guide for Beginners, Semi-experts, and Deeply Serious Geeks, by Zack Hample (10,847)	5

Analysis: The post-season is upon us, so I look for increasing interest in the statistical and alanlytic books to help those so inclned gear up for the 2010 fantasy season.

Again, the success of Bill Simmons’ basketball book (# 13 among all bestsellers and #1 on the NY Times‘ non-fiction list) is dragging along his Red Sox book in its wake. No baseball titles in Amazon’s top 100 bestseller list, but other sports books, aside from Simmons’, include Andre Aggasi’s memoirs (#3), When the Game Was Ours, by Larry Bird, Magic Johnson, and Jackie MacMullin (31), Born to Run, by Christopher McDougall (63), and Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman, by Jon Krakauer (66). None among the NY Times top 35 non-fictional titles, either.

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