* TWIBB — Feb. 12

February 12, 2010

This week’s best-selling baseball books, according to Amazon.com as of Friday, Feb. 12.

Title Rank
General
Baseball Prospectus 2010 1
Willie Mays: The Life, The Legend, by James S. Hirsch
2
Baseball America 2010 Prospect Handbook: The Comprehensive Guide to Rising Stars from the Definitive Source on Prospects 3
2010 Baseball Forecaster (Ron Shandler’s Baseball Forecaster) 4
The Bill James Handbook 2010 5
Essays and Writing
Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game, by Michael Lewis
 1
The Hardball Times Baseball Annual 2010 1 2
Beyond Belief: Finding the Strength to Come Back, by Josh Hamilton 3
The Bill James Gold Mine 2010 4
Now I Can Die in Peace: How The Sports Guy Found Salvation Thanks to the World Champion (Twice!) Red Sox, by Bill Simmons 5
History
Willie Mays 1
Satchel: The Life and Times of an American Legend, by Larry Tye 2
Now I Can Die in Peace
 3
Willie’s Boys: The 1948 Birmingham Black Barons, The Last Negro League World Series, and the Making of a Baseball Legend, by John Klima 4
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 5
Statistics
Baseball Prospectus 2010 1
Baseball America 2010 Prospect Handbook 2
2010 Baseball Forecaster 3
The Bill James Handbook 2010 4
2010 Minor League Baseball Analyst,by Rob Gordon and Jeremy Deloney 5

1 The second ranked title was the Kindle edition of Moneyball

Analysis: Baseball Prospectus and Hirsch’s Mays bio are among Amazon’s top five sports best-sellers. Klima’s book on Mays as a Negro Leaguer makes a nice bookend, so to speak, with the newer release. And while the latter is not yet on the NY Times‘ non-fiction list, I’m predicting it soon will be, as will Jane Leavy’s upcoming Mantle biography.

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