TWIBB — January 29, 2009

January 29, 2010

This week’s best-selling baseball books, according to Amazon.com as of Friday, January 29.

Title Rank
General
Baseball Prospectus 2010 1
Baseball America 2010 Prospect Handbook: The Comprehensive Guide to Rising Stars from the Definitive Source on Prospects
 2
2010 Baseball Forecaster (Ron Shandler’s Baseball Forecaster) 3
Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game, by Michael Lewis 4
2010 Minor League Baseball Analyst,by Rob Gordon and Jeremy Deloney 5
Essays and Writing
Moneyball
 1
The Hardball Times Baseball Annual 2010 1 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
The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract 4
Heads-Up Baseball : Playing the Game One Pitch at a Time, by Hanson, et al 5
History
Satchel: The Life and Times of an American Legend, by Larry Tye 1
Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx Is Burning: 1977, Baseball, Politics, and the Battle for the Soul of a City, by Jonathan Mahler2 2
Munson: The Life and Death of a Yankee Captain, by Marty Appel 3
Now I Can Die in Peace 4
Willie Mays: The Life, The Legend, by James S. Hirsch 5
Statistics
Baseball Prospectus 2010 1
Baseball America 2010 Prospect Handbook 2
2010 Baseball Forecaster 3
2010 Minor League Baseball Analyst 4
The Bill James Handbook 2010 5

1 The second ranked title was the Kindle edition of Moneyball
2 The second ranked title was the Kindle edition of Satchel.

Analysis: The momentary blip of older titles has given way to the staple of statistical manuals as fantasy players prepare for their drafts. The long-awaited Willie Mays biography remains a pre-order favorite.

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