TWIBB: Sept. 17, 2010

September 17, 2010

The top baseball books, according to Amazon.com as of Noon on Friday, Sept. 27.

Title Rank
General
Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game, by Michael Lewis 1
Ball Four, by Jim Bouton 2
The Baseball Codes: Beanballs, Sign Stealing, and Bench-Clearing Brawls: The Unwritten Rules of America’s Pastime by Jason Turbow and Michael Duca 3
The Bullpen Gospels: Major League Dreams of a Minor League Veteran, by Dirk Hayhurst 4
The Game from Where I Stand: A Ballplayer’s Inside View, by Doug Glanville 5
Essays and Writing
Moneyball 1
Ball Four 2
The Bullpen Gospels 3
The Game From where I Stand 4
Beyond Belief: Finding the Strength to Come Back, by Josh Hamilton and Tim Keown 5
History
The Philadelphia Phillies: An Extraordinary Tradition, by Scott Gummer 1
Willie Mays: The Life, The Legend, by James S. Hirsch 2
The Baseball Talmud: The Definitive Position-by-Position Ranking of Baseball’s Chosen Players, by Howard Megdal 3
The Mental ABC’s of Pitching: A Handbook for Performance Enhancement by H.A. Dorfman 4
The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract 5
Statistics
The Bill James Handbook 2010 1
The Bill James Historical Abstract 2
Watching Baseball Smarter: A Professional Fan’s Guide for Beginners, Semi-experts, and Deeply Serious Geeks, by Zack Hample 3
The Book: Playing the Percentages in Baseball, by Tom Tango et al 4
Baseball Between the Numbers: Why Everything You Know About the Game Is Wrong, by Baseball Prospectus 5

(Note: The list includes print editions/baseball titles only, allowing for non-baseball titles and kindle editions that affected the rankings. Also, the rankings change hourly, so the result you get when you visit Amazon.com might not be the same.)


Analysis: The only baseball titles in the top 20 Amazon’s sports bestseller list were Moneyball (12). There are no baseball titles on the NY Times list.

It’s news to me: Jim Bouton’s Ball Four is back on the list, in this, its 40th anniversary year. Perhaps in honor of the High Holy Days, The Baseball Talmud makes its return to the list.

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