* TWIBB — March 26

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

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
Mint Condition: How Baseball Cards Became an American Obsession, by Dave Jamieson	4
The Baseball Codes: Beanballs, Sign Stealing, and Bench-Clearing Brawls: The Unwritten Rules of America’s Pastime, by Jason Turbow with Michael Duca	5
Essays and Writing
Moneyball	1
The Bill James Gold Mine 2010	2
The Bullpen Gospels: Major League Dreams of a Minor League Veteran, by Dirk Hayhurst	3
Giants Past & Present, by Dan Fost	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 Good-Bye: The Mystery, The Mormon, and the Moral of the 1960 Pittsburgh Pirates, by John Moody	2
Fifty-Nine in ’84: Old Hoss Radbourn, Barehanded Baseball, and the Greatest Season a Pitcher Ever Had, by Edward Achorn	3
Al Kaline: The Biography of a Tigers Icon, by Jim Hawkins	4
Minnesota Twins: The Complete Illustrated History, by Dennis Brackin	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
Watching Baseball Smarter: A Professional Fan’s Guide for Beginners, Semi-experts, and Deeply Serious Geeks, by Zack Hample	4
2010 Baseball Forecaster (Ron Shandler’s Baseball Forecaster)	5

(Note: The list includes print editions/baseball titles only, allowing for non-baseball titles and kindle editions that affected the rankings. Also, the rankings change hourly, so the result you get when you visit Amazon.com might not be the same.)

Analysis: Mays slips to No. 20 on The New York Times non-fiction hardcover best-seller list. New titles making their debut this week include Dave Jamieson’s Mint Condition; Jason Turbow and Michael Duca’s The Baseball Codes; Jim Hawkins’ bio on Al Kaline ; and Dennis Brackin’s paean to the Minnesota Twins. A couple of oldies but goodies: Zack Hample’s Watching Baseball Smarter and an overview of the game by the popular ESPN broadcaster Tim Kurkjian.