* TWIBB: Week of 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.