* TWIBB — Feb. 19

This week’s best-selling baseball books, according to Amazon.com as of Friday, Feb. 19.

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
Harry the K: The Remarkable Life of Harry Kalas, by Randy Miller	5
Essays and Writing
The Bill James Gold Mine 2010	1
Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game, by Michael Lewis	2
The Hardball Times Baseball Annual 2010¹	3
Heads-Up Baseball : Playing the Game One Pitch at a Time, by Hanson, et al	4
Sports Illustrated: The Basketball Book	5
History
Willie Mays	1
Baseball’s Greatest Series: Yankees, Mariners, and the 1995 Matchup That Changed History, by C.N. Donnelly	2
Satchel: The Life and Times of an American Legend, by Larry Tye	3
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly: Heart-Pounding, Jaw-Dropping, and Gut-Wrenching Moments From Philadelphia Phillies History, by Todd Zolecki	4
The Mental ABC’s of Pitching: A Handbook for Performance Enhancement, by H.A. Dorfman	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 actual fourth-ranked title was the Kindle edition of Moneyball; the actual fifth-ranked edition was Sports Illustrated: The Basketball Book; the actual seventh-ranked The China Study

Analysis: Baseball Prospectus and Hirsch’s Mays bio are again in Amazon’s top five sports best-sellers. Baseball America’s Prospect book, the Baseball Forecaster, and the new biography on the late Harry Kalas are all in the top 25. By the way look for the Bookshelf interview with Mays author James S. Hirsch next Friday.

If I was a certain kind of Mets fan, I might express surprise that there are two new books about the Phillies on the list; that guy might say he didn’t know Phillies fans could read. Good thing I’m not that guy. But seriously, folks (ba-da-boom), kudos to Randy Miller for his profile of legendary and beloved Kalas.

Not quite understanding some of Amazon’s methodology. I specifically look at four categories within best-selling baseball titles: general, essay, history, and statistics. Someone must be asleep at the switch to include the SI basketball book and another title of nutrition into the mix.