* TWIBB — Friday, March 19

March 19, 2010

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

Title Rank
General
Willie Mays: The Life, The Legend, by James S. Hirsch
1
Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game, by Michael Lewis 2
Baseball Prospectus 2010 3
Kiss It Good-Bye: The Mystery, The Mormon, and the Moral of the 1960 Pittsburgh Pirates, by John Moody 4
Harry the K: The Remarkable Life of Harry Kalas, by Randy Miller 5
Essays and Writing
Moneyball
1
The Bill James Gold Mine 2010
 		2
Coach: Lessons on the Game of Life, by Michael Lewis
 3
Nolan Ryan’s Pitcher’s Bible: The Ultimate Guide to Power, Precision, and Long-Term Performance 4
The Bullpen Gospels: Major League Dreams of a Minor League Veteran, by Dirk Hayhurst 5
History
Willie Mays 1
Kiss It Goodbye
 2
Fifty-Nine in ’84: Old Hoss Radbourn, Barehanded Baseball, and the Greatest Season a Pitcher Ever Had, by Edward Achorn 3
1921: The Yankees, the Giants, and the Battle for Baseball Supremacy in New York, by Lyle Spatz and Steve SteinbergF 4
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly Philadelphia Phillies: 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: The Comprehensive Guide to Rising Stars from the Definitive Source on Prospects 2
The Bill James Gold Mine 3
2010 Baseball Forecaster (Ron Shandler’s Baseball Forecaster)
 4
The Bill James Handbook 2010 5

(Note: The list includes print editions/baseball titles only, allowing for non-baseball titles and kindle editions that affected the rankings.)

Analysis: Mays remains No. 8 on The New York Times non-fiction hardcover best-seller list. Lewis’ Coach might be part of the Oscar Blind Side after-effect in which all things tangential to the principals )previous movies, works on which the film was adapted, etc.) become of interest.

Dirk Hayhurst’s memoir makes it to the Top Five. Look for n entry on that in the near future.

Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game, by Michael Lewis
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