* TWIBB — December 11

December 11, 2009

This week in baseball books, featuring the best-sellers according to Amazon.com on Friday, December 11.

Title Rank
General
The Yankee Years, by Joe Torre and Tom Verducci (448) 1
The Machine: A Hot Team, a Legendary Season, and a Heart-stopping World Series: The Story of the 1975 Cincinnati Reds, by Joe Posnanski (649) 2
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(857) 3
Baseball Americana: Treasures from the Library of Congress (942) 4
Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game, by Michael Lewis (1,018) 5
Essays and Writing
Sixty Feet Six Inches
1
Moneyball
 2
Now I Can Die in Peace: How The Sports Guy Found Salvation Thanks to the World Champion (Twice!) Red Sox, by Bill Simmons (3,135) 3
Sports Illustrated: The Baseball Book (3,157) 4
101 Reasons to Love the Red Sox (Revised),by Dave Green(4,313) 5
History
The Machine 1
Sixty Feet, Six Inches 2
Game Six: Cincinnati, Boston, and the 1975 World Series: The Triumph of America’s Pastime, by Mark Frost (2,471)
 3
Satchel: The Life and Times of an American Legend, by Larry Tye (2,373) 4
Now I Can Die in Peace 5
Statistics
The Bill James Handbook 2010 (1,662)
Baseball Prospectus 2010 (5,044) 2
The Hardball Times Baseball Annual 2010 (7,349) 3
Baseball America 2010 Prospect Handbook: The Comprehensive Guide to Rising Stars from the Definitive Source on Prospects (Baseball America Prospect Handbook) (10,032) 4
The Book: Playing the Percentages in Baseball, by Tango et al (10,591) 5

Analysis: The sales rankings are returning to where they were prior to last week, although the numericals remain pretty much the same. A new title since I’ve been making these lists: 101 Reasons to Love the Red Sox (Revised Edition). As I wrote awhile ago, I have no love for these types of revisions. There’s no real new information, so it just seems like a money grab.

Once again, there are no baseball titles in either Amazon’s top 100 or The New York Times‘ non-fiction best seller lists.

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