*TWIBB — October 9

This week in baseball books, featuring the best-sellers according to Amazon.com on Friday, October 9.

Title	Rank
General
The Machine: A Hot Team, a Legendary Season, and a Heart-stopping World Series: The Story of the 1975 Cincinnati Reds, by Joe Posnanski	1
Game Six: Cincinnati, Boston, and the 1975 World Series: The Triumph of America’s Pastime, by Mark Frost	2
Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game, by Michael Lewis	3
Sixty Feet, Six Inches: A Hall of Fame Pitcher & a Hall of Fame Hitter Talk about How the Game is Played, by Bob Gibson, Reggie Jackson, and Lonnie Wheeler	4
Perfect: Don Larsen’s Miraculous World Series Game and the Men Who Made It Happen, by Lew Paper	5
Essays and Writing
Moneyball	1
Sixty Feet Six Inches	2
View from the Booth: Four Decades with the Phillies, by Chris Wheeler	3
Now I Can Die in Peace: How The Sports Guy Found Salvation Thanks to the World Champion (Twice!) Red Sox, by Bill Simmons	4
As They See ‘Em: A Fan’s Travels in the Land of Umpires, by Bruce Weber	5
History
The Machine	1
Game Six	2
Perfect	3
Satchel: The Life and Times of an American Legend, by Larry Tye	4
View from the Booth	5
Statistics
Watching Baseball Smarter: A Professional Fan’s Guide for Beginners, Semi-experts, and Deeply Serious Geeks, by Zack Hample	1
The Book: Playing the Percentages in Baseball, by Tango et al	2
The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract	3
Baseball Between the Numbers: Why Everything You Know About the Game Is Wrong, by Baseball Prospectus	4
The Bill James Handbook 2010	5

Analysis: The top three “general” books are all World Series related. The Machine returns to the NY Times best-seller list, clocking in at #33, while Sixty Feet Six Inches, the Gibson-Jackson collaboration, debuts at #35. Moneyball is tangentially connected, since Kevin Youkilis is generally hailed as a prototypical Billy Beane-type player, with a high on-base percentage to go along with his other attributes.

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