* TWIBB — January 16, 2010

This week’s best-selling baseball books, according to Amazon.com as of Saturday, January 16.

Title	Rank
General
Baseball Prospectus 2010	1
2010 Baseball Forecaster (Ron Shandler’s Baseball Forecaster)	2
Baseball America 2010 Prospect Handbook: The Comprehensive Guide to Rising Stars from the Definitive Source on Prospects (Baseball America Prospect Handbook)	3
Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game, by Michael Lewis	4
The Bill James Handbook 2010	5
Essays and Writing
Moneyball	1
The Hardball Times Baseball Annual 2010¹	2
Vindicated: Big Names, Big Liars, and the Battle to Save Baseball, by Jose Canseco	3
Now I Can Die in Peace: How The Sports Guy Found Salvation Thanks to the World Champion (Twice!) Red Sox, by Bill Simmons	4
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	5
History
Satchel: The Life and Times of an American Legend, by Larry Tye	1
Now I Can Die in Peace	2
The Machine: A Hot Team, a Legendary Season, and a Heart-stopping World Series: The Story of the 1975 Cincinnati Reds, by Joe Posnanski²	3
Sixty Feet, Six Inches	4
I Never Had It Made: An Autobiography of Jackie Robinson, by Jackie Robinson	5
Statistics
Baseball Prospectus 2010	1
2010 Baseball Forecaster	2
Baseball America 2010 Prospect Handbook	3
The Bill James Handbook 2010	4
Baseball America 2010 Almanac: A Comprehensive Review of the 2009 Season (Baseball America Almanac)	5

¹ The second ranked title was the Kindle edition of Moneyball
² The second ranked title was the Kindle edition of Satchel.

Analysis: Mark McGwire’s mea culpa has brought Jose Canseco back into the consciousness of baseball book buyers, which has to explain the reappearance of Vindicated in the rankings. And with Martin Luther King Day on Monday, and February as Black History Month, we see a return to the lists of Larry Tye’s Satchel as well as Jackie Robinson’s 1972 autobiography (written with Alfred Duckett).