* TWIBB — Week of April 16, 2010

April 16, 2010

This week’s best-selling baseball books, according to Amazon.com as of Friday, April 16.

Title Rank
General
The Bullpen Gospels: Major League Dreams of a Minor League Veteran, by Dirk Hayhurst 1
The Baseball Codes: Beanballs, Sign Stealing, and Bench-Clearing Brawls: The Unwritten Rules of America’s Pastime, by Jason Turbow and Michael Duca 2
Willie Mays: The Life, The Legend, by James S. Hirsch 3
Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game, by Michael Lewis 4
Mint Condition: How Baseball Cards Became an American Obsession, by Dave Jamieson 5
Essays and Writing
The Bullpen Gospels 1
Moneyball 2
Sixty Feet, Six Inches: A Hall of Fame Pitcher & a Hall of Fame Hitter Talk about How the Game is Played, by Lonnie Wheeler 3
Two Guys Read the Box Scores: Conversations on Baseball and Other Metaphysical Wonders, by Steve Chanlder and Terrence Hill 4
As They See ‘Em: A Fan’s Travels in the Land of Umpires, by Bruce Weber 5
History
Willie Mays 1
Sixty-Feet, Six-Inches
 2
The Mental ABC’s of Pitching: A Handbook for Performance Enhancement, by H.A. Dorfman 3
Two Guys Read the Box Scores
 4
Fifty-Nine in ’84: Old Hoss Radbourn, Barehanded Baseball, and the Greatest Season a Pitcher Ever Had, by Edward Achorn 5
Statistics
Watching Baseball Smarter: A Professional Fan’s Guide for Beginners, Semi-experts, and Deeply Serious Geeks, by Zack Hample 1
Baseball Prospectus 2010 2
The Book: Playing the Percentages in Baseball, by Tango et al 3
The Bill James Gold Mine 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. Also, the rankings change hourly, so the result you get when you visit Amazon.com might not be the same.)

Analysis: No baseball books in Amazon’s top 100 this week, but Hayhurst’s Bullpen Gospels is #19 on The New York Times paperback non-fiction Bestsellers List.

Making their debut on Amazon: Chandler and Hill’s Two Guys. Stephen King and Stewart O’Nan did a back-and-forth about the Red Sox for the 2004 season. I wonder how this will be similar/different, other than the name recognition. I hope it won’t just be a reprinting of emails discussing games.

Welcome back: As They See’ Em, by Bruce Weber; The Book, by Tango and company.

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