* TWIBB — Feb. 26

February 26, 2010

This week’s best-selling baseball books, according to Amazon.com as of Friday, Feb. 26.

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
The Bill James Gold Mine 2010
 1
Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game, by Michael Lewis 2
Mark and Me: Mark McGwire and the Truth Behind Baseball’s Worst-kept Secret, by Jay McGwire 3
The Hardball Times Baseball Annual 2010 1 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
Fifty-Nine in ’84: Old Hoss Radbourn, Barehanded Baseball, and the Greatest Season a Pitcher Ever Had, by Edward Achorn 2
Now I Can Die in Peace
 3
Satchel: The Life and Times of an American Legend, by Larry Tye 4
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly: Heart-Pounding, Jaw-Dropping, and Gut-Wrenching Moments From Philadelphia Phillies History, by Todd Zolecki 5
Statistics
Baseball Prospectus 2010 1
Baseball America 2010 Prospect Handbook 2
2010 Baseball Forecaster 3
The Bill James Handbook 2010 4
Bill James Gold Mine 5

1 The actual fourth-ranked title was the Kindle edition of Moneyball

Analysis: Baseball Prospectus is the only sports book on Amazon’s 100 bestseller list the top 25. BP and Mays are in the top 25 Sports bestsellers. (Look for a front page review of Mays in this Sunday’s Times Book section.) Other than that, there’s nothing outstanding this week.

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