This week in baseball books, featuring the best-sellers according to Amazon.com on Saturday, September 19.
| 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 |
1 |
| Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Games, Lewis | 2 |
| The Yankee Years, Torre and Verducci | 3 |
| View from the Booth: Four Decades with the Phillies, Wheeler | 4 |
| The Soul of Baseball: A Road Trip Through Buck O’Neil’s America, Posnanski | 5 |
| Essays and Writing | |
 Moneyball |
1 |
| View from the Booth: Four Decades with the Phillies | 2 |
| Beyond Belief: Finding the Strength to Come Back, Hamilton and Keown | 3 |
| Heads-Up Baseball: Playing the Game One Pitch at a Tie, Hansen, et al | 4 |
| As They See ‘Em: A Fan’s Travels in the Land of Umpires, Weber | 5 |
| History | |
| The Machine | 1 |
| View from the Booth: Four Decades with the Phillies | 2 |
| Satchel: The Life and Times of an American Legend, Tye | 3 |
| Game Six: Cincinnati, Boston, and the 1975 World Series: The Triumph of America’s Pastime, Frost | 4 |
| Munson: The Life and Death of a Yankee Captain, Appel | 5 |
| Statistics | |
 Watching Baseball Smarter: A Professional Fan’s Guide for Beginners, Semi-experts, and Deeply Serious Geeks, Hample |
1 |
| Baseball Between the Numbers: Why Everything You Know About the Game Is Wrong, Baseball Prospectus | 2 |
| The Book: Playing the Percentages in Baseball, Tango, et al | 3 |
| The SABR Baseball List & Record Book: Baseball’s Most Fascinating and Unusual Records | 4 |
| The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract, James | 5 |
Analysis: Posnanski’s new book might have regenerated interest in his previous title, an excellent bio of the Negro League “legend,” made famous by Ken Burns’ 1995 documentary. The topic of his new book, the Reds, and the timing (getting close to the post-season) might also account for Frosts new title, which is rated highly even though it isn’t available yet. Another new title is Wheeler’s insider look at the Phillies, perhaps hanging on the coattails of the sad news about Ernie Harwell.
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