TWIBB: May 21, 2010

May 21, 2010

This top baseball books, according to Amazon.com as of Friday, May 21.

Title Rank
General
Steinbrenner: The Last Lion of Baseball, by Bill Madden 1
The Baseball Codes: Beanballs, Sign Stealing, and Bench-Clearing Brawls: The Unwritten Rules of America’s Pastime, by Jason Turbow with Michael Duca 2
The Last Hero: A Life of Henry Aaron, by Howard Bryant 3
The Game from Where I Stand: A Ballplayer’s Inside View, by Doug Glanville 4
Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game, by Michael Lewis 5
Essays and Writing
The Game From Where I stand 1
Moneyball 2
The Bullpen Gospels: Major League Dreams of a Minor League Veteran, by Dirk Hayhurst 3
Ball Four, by Jim Bouton 4
Men at Work: The Craft of Baseball, by George F. Will 5
History
Shattered: Struck Down, But Not Destroyed, by Frank Pastore 1
Willie Mays: The Life, The Legend, by James S. Hirsch 2
Are We Winning?: Fathers and Sons in the New Golden Age of Baseball, by Will Leitch 3
The Philadelphia Phillies: An Extraordinary Tradition, by Scott Gummer 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
The Book: Playing the Percentages in Baseball, by Tango et al 2
Baseball Prospectus 2010 3
The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract 4
Baseball Between the Numbers: Why Everything You Know About the Game Is Wrong, by Baseball Prospectus 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: 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. This week, however, there are no new titles.

Welcome back: Bill James’ Historical Abstract makes its return. I wish they’d hurry up and update this one.

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