* TWIBB — This week in baseball books, March 7

March 5, 2010

This week’s best-selling baseball books, according to Amazon.com as of Sunday, March 7. Sorry, bit behind as I move things over to this site.

Title Rank
General
Willie Mays: The Life, The Legend, by James S. Hirsch
1
Baseball Prospectus 2010 2
Kiss It Good-Bye: The Mystery, The Mormon, and the Moral of the 1960 Pittsburgh Pirates, by John Moody 3
Baseball America 2010 Prospect Handbook: The Comprehensive Guide to Rising Stars from the Definitive Source on Prospects 4
2010 Baseball Forecaster (Ron Shandler’s Baseball Forecaster) 5
Essays and Writing
Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game, by Michael Lewis
1
The Bill James Gold Mine 2010
2
The Hardball Times Baseball Annual 2010 1 3
Heads-Up Baseball: Playing the Game One Pitch at a Time
4
Is This a Great Game, or What?: From A-Rod’s Heart to Zim’s Head—My 25 Years in Baseball, by Tim Kurkjian 5
History
Willie Mays 1
Kiss It Goodbye
2
1921: The Yankees, the Giants, and the Battle for Baseball Supremacy in New York, by Lyle Spatz and Steve Steinberg 3
Satchel: The Life and Times of an American Legend, by Larry Tye 4
Fifty-Nine in ’84: Old Hoss Radbourn, Barehanded Baseball, and the Greatest Season a Pitcher Ever Had, by Edward Achorn 5
Statistics
Baseball Prospectus 2010 1
Baseball America 2010 Prospect Handbook 2
2010 Baseball Forecaster 3
The Bill James Gold Mine 4
The Bill James Handbook 2010 5

1 Print editions / baseball titles only, allowing for non-baseball titles and kindle editions that  affected the rankings

Analysis: Mays comes i at Number 8 among New York Times non-fiction titles. Kiss it Goodbye celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Pittsburgh Pirates shocker against the Yankees in the World Series. Mays and Baseball Prospectus rank in te top 10 on Amazon’s 100 bestselling sports titles. Mays also ranks 86 overall. For some bizarre reason, graphic novels dominate the top 25 this week.

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