NOTE: I have been posting these things long enough now that a few have commented that the introductory section isn’t necessary anymore. But I’m leaving it in because, to paraphrase Joe DiMaggio when asked why he played so hard all the time, there may be people who’ve never read the best-seller entries before. So on with the show…
Caveat 1: Print editions only (at least for now); because I’m old school.
Caveat 2: Since the rankings are updated every hour, these lists might not longer be 100 percent accurate by the time you read them. But it’ll be close enough for government work.
Caveat 3: Sometimes they’ll try to pull one over on you and include a book within a category that doesn’t belong. I’m using my discretion to eliminate such titles from my list. For example, for some reason a recent listing included Tarnished Heels: How Unethical Actions and Deliberate Deceit at the University of North Carolina Ended the “The Carolina Way,” which, far as I can tell, is not at all about baseball, at least not in the main.
Baseball Prospectus 2016- Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game, by Michael Lewis
- 2016 Baseball Forecaster, by Ron Shandler
- Baseball America 2016 Prospect Handbook: Scouting Reports and Rankings of the Best Young Talent in Baseball
- The Natural, by Bernard Malamud
- The Mental Game of Baseball: A Guide to Peak Performance, by H.A. Dorfman
- This Old Man: All in Pieces, by Roger Angell
- The Bill James Handbook 2016
- Big Data Baseball: Math, Miracles, and the End of a 20-Year Losing Streak, by Travis Sawchik
- Hardball Times Annual 2016
Note: The fifth best-selling book listed within the category is Who Owns the Ice House? Eight Life Lessons From an Unlikely Entrepreneur, a 2010 offering by Gary Schoeniger and Clifton Taulbert, but I can’t glean any discernible baseball content from the blurb.
Still pretty close to the previous two best-seller posts in terms of titles and even ranking. The major difference: the addition of the Hardball Times annual.
New York Times: The monthly sports list is without a single baseball title.
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