TWIBB: May 14, 2010

This top baseball books, according to Amazon.com as of Friday, May 14.

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
Steinbrenner: The Last Lion of Baseball, by Bill Madden	4
Willie Mays: The Life, The Legend, by James S. Hirsch	5
Essays and Writing
The Bullpen Gospels	1
Moneyball	2
Men at Work: The Craft of Baseball, by George F. Will	3
Ball Four, by Jim Bouton	4
The Game from Where I Stand: A Ballplayer’s Inside View, by Doug Glanville	5
History
The Philadelphia Phillies: An Extraordinary Tradition, by Scott Gummer	1
Willie Mays	2
Are We Winning?: Fathers and Sons in the New Golden Age of Baseball, by Will Leitch	3
Men at Work	4
Of Mikes and Men: A Lifetime of Braves Baseball, by Pete Van Wieren	5
Statistics
Watching Baseball Smarter: A Professional Fan’s Guide for Beginners, Semi-experts, and Deeply Serious Geeks, by Zack Hample	1
The Book: Playing the Percentages in Baseball, by Tango et al	2
Baseball America 2010 Prospect Handbook: The Comprehensive Guide to Rising Stars from the Definitive Source on Prospects (Baseball America Prospect Handbook)	3
Baseball Prospectus 2010	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 on The New York Times paperback non-fiction Bestsellers List.

It’s news to me: I realize that Amazon changes its rankings hourly, so it might well be inaccurate to make a statement at any given time concerning the debut of a book on the list, so I’m changing things around a bit.

Doug Glanville‘s new book on the list is new to me. The former Cub/Phillie/Ranger and current ESPN BBTN analysts and frequent contributor to The New York Times has published a top-notch look at life in pro ball, without hyperbole or self-promotion. Look for a Bookshelf review and interview with Glanville in the near future.