* TWIBB: Week of April 23, 2010
April 23, 2010
This week’s best-selling baseball books, according to Amazon.com as of Friday, April 23.
| Title |
Rank |
| General |
The Baseball Codes: Beanballs, Sign Stealing, and Bench-Clearing Brawls: The Unwritten Rules of America’s Pastime , by Jason Turbow and Michael Duca |
1 |
The Bullpen Gospels: Major League Dreams of a Minor League Veteran , by Dirk Hayhurst |
2 |
Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game , by Michael Lewis |
3 |
Willie Mays: The Life, The Legend , by James S. Hirsch |
4 |
Of Mikes and Men: A Lifetime of Braves Baseball , by Pete Van Wieren |
5 |
| Essays and Writing |
| The Bullpen Gospels |
1 |
| Moneyball |
2 |
Men at Work: The Craft of Baseball , by George F. Will |
3 |
Sixty Feet, Six Inches: A Hall of Fame Pitcher & a Hall of Fame Hitter Talk about How the Game is Played , by Lonnie Wheeler |
4 |
Nolan Ryan’s Pitcher’s Bible: The Ultimate Guide to Power, Precision, and Long-Term Performance |
5 |
| History |
| Willie Mays |
1 |
| Of Mikes and Men |
2 |
The Eastern Stars: How Baseball Changed the Dominican Town of San Pedro de Macoris , by Mark Kurlansky |
3 |
Fifty-Nine in ’84: Old Hoss Radbourn, Barehanded Baseball, and the Greatest Season a Pitcher Ever Had , by Edward Achorn |
4 |
The Mental ABC’s of Pitching: A Handbook for Performance Enhancement , by H.A. Dorfman |
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 |
Baseball Between the Numbers: Why Everything You Know About the Game Is Wrong , by Jonah Keri |
4 |
Baseball America 2010 Prospect Handbook: The Comprehensive Guide to Rising Stars from the Definitive Source on Prospects (Baseball America Prospect Handbook)
|
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 moves up to #15 on The New York Times paperback non-fiction Bestsellers List.
Making their debut on Amazon (for the Bookshelf’s intents and purposes): Peter Van Wieren’s Of Mikes and Men, which would seem to be another collection of anecdotes by a long-time broadcaster.
Welcome back: Men at Work, the George Will classic.
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