Baseball Best-Sellers, May 6, 2022

May 6, 2022

A reminder: The Amazon rankings are updated every hour, so these lists might not be 100 percent accurate by the time you read them (or even by the time I finish posting them). But close enough for government work, as the saying goes.

In addition, occasionally the powers-that-be over there try to pull a fast one by including a book in a category to which it should not be listed (in my opinion). For example, The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect has appeared on the BBS list. “Why” is a good question. There might be a smattering of the national pastime in it, but not enough to make it a baseball book per se (again, IMO).

Finally, adults only here. That is, no books for younger readers. Also no “adult” books here, that is, no romance/erotic fiction that features baseball as a theme either (although goodness knows there are a bunch of those).

So, with all that said…

The links under the authors’ names will take you to the Bookshelf Conversations I did with them. The asterisk denotes the author is a “member” of the Pandemic Baseball Book Club.

Mexican American Baseball in the South Bay: Santillán, Richard A., Gonzáles, Ron, Ortez, Monica, Cueva-Fernández, Olivia, Santa Cruz, Reynaldo G., Docter, Christopher, Saucedo, Marcelino, Areyan, Alex Moreno, Duarte Solís, Alice, Olguín, AlbertPRINT

  1. The Baseball 100, by Joe Posnanski
  2. Beckett Baseball Card Price Guide 2022
  3. The Science of Hitting, by Ted Williams with John Underwood
  4. True: The Four Seasons of Jackie Robinson, by Kostya Kennedy
  5. Baseball America Prospect Handbook 2022
  6. Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game, by Michael Lewis
  7. The Cloudbuster Nine: The Untold Story of Ted Williams and the Baseball Team That Helped Win World War II, by Anne R. Keene
  8. Mind of a Superior Hitter: The Art, Science and Philosophy, by Michael McCree
  9. Good As Gold: My Eight Decades in Baseball, by Jim Kaat and Douglas Lyons
  10. Mexican American Baseball in the South Bay, by Richard A. Santillan et al

KINDLE BOOKS

  1. Maris & Mantle: Two Yankees, Baseball Immortality, and the Age of Camelot, by Tony Castro
  2. The Captain and Me: On and Off the Field with Thurman Munson, by Ron Blomberg and Dan Epstein
  3. I Never Had It Made: An Autobiography of Jackie Robinson, by Jackie Robinson and Alfred Duckett
  4. The Sputnik Season, by Noel Hynd
  5. Moneyball
  6. The Baseball 100
  7. A Game of Extremes: 25 Exceptional Baseball Stories about What Happened on and off the Field, by Roy Lingster
  8. The Bronx Zoom: Inside the New York Yankees’ Most Bizarre Season, by Bryan Hoch
  9. Good as Gold
  10. Cloudbuster Nine

AUDIBLE

Note: Amazon has changed the way they list audiobooks. No longer under the general category of “biography and memoir,” they are now treated in their own baseball/softball category. Here’s the general link to the section where you will find further links to the individual titles, their reader/narrators, and samples. Note further that these are updated regularly and the top ten list below might no longer be the same.

  1. Moneyball  (unabridged, narrated by Scott Brick)
  2. The Baseball 100
  3. The Bad Guys Won, by Jeff Perlman
  4. Calico Joe, by John Grisham
  5. Heads-Up Baseball, by Ken Ravizza
  6. Ball Four, by Jim Bouton and Leonard Shecter
  7. The Matheny Manifesto, by Mike Matheny
  8. Foul Ball, by Bouton
  9. Ninety Percent Mental, by Bob Tewksbury
  10. The Mental Game of Baseball, by H.A. Dorfman

The Bookshelf Conversation with Kostya Kennedy finally went live earlier this week.

Still not in the Amazon top ten? 501 Baseball Books Fans Must Read before They Die. FYI, right now it ranks at 2,648,064 overall in books; last time, 2,662,858. Hank Greenberg in 1938: Hatred and Home Runs in the Shadow of War ranks 398,642 (#73 in Teen & Young adult baseball and softball); last time, 2,034,728. Makes a nice graduation present, I guess.

Shameless self-promotion: if you’re looking for some good baseball reading during this down time, why not pick up a copy of 501? It’s like the abridged dictionary; it has most of the other books in it.

A reminder: There’s an Excel “checklist” of the books list in 501. If you’re interested in keeping track of how many you have read or own, drop me a line.

If you have read either of my books, thanks, hope you enjoyed it, and please consider writing an Amazon review; it’s never too late.

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