This week in baseball books, featuring the best-sellers according to Amazon.com on Friday, September 11.
| Title | Rank |
|---|---|
| General | |
| The Machine: A Hot Team, a Legendary Season, and a Heart-stopping World Series: The Story of the 1975 Cincinnati Reds, Posnanski
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1 |
| Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Games, Lewis | 2 |
| The Yankee Years, Torre and Verducci | 3 |
| Pull Up A Chair: The Vin Scully Story, Smith | 4 |
| Satchel: The Life and Times of an American Legend, Tye | 5 |
| Essays and Writing | |
| Moneyball | 1 |
| As They See ‘Em: A Fan’s Travel in the Land of Umpires, Weber | 2 |
| Beyond Belief: Finding the Strength to Come Back, Hamilton and Keown | 3 |
| Nolan Ryan’s Pitcher’s Bible: The Ultimate Guide to Power, Precision, and Long-Term Performance, House, Rosenthal, and Ryan | 4 |
| Now I Can Die in Peace: How The Sports Guy Found Salvation Thanks to the World Champion (Twice!) Red Sox, Simmons | 5 |
| History | |
| The Machine | 1 |
| Satchel | 2 |
| Munson: The Life and Death of a Yankee Captain, Appel | 3 |
| Yankees Century: 100 Years of New York Yankees Baseball, Stout (Author), Johnson (editor) | 4 |
| Eight Men Out: The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series, Asinof | 5 |
| Statistics | |
| The Book: Playing the Percentages in Baseball, Tango, et al | 1 |
| Watching Baseball Smarter: A Professional Fan’s Guide for Beginners, Semi-experts, and Deeply Serious Geeks, Hample | 2 |
| Baseball Prospectus 2009 | 3 |
| Baseball Between the Numbers: Why Everything You Know About the Game Is Wrong, Baseball Prospectus | 4 |
| The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract, James | 5 |
Analysis: Eight Men Out was one of the first “adult” baseball books I recall reading and one of my favorite movies of the genre of all time. And I wonder if Derek Jeter’s ascendancy as the Yankees’ all-time hits leader has anything to do with the showing of Yankees Century?
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