TWIBB: June 4, 2010

This top baseball books, according to Amazon.com as of Friday, June 4.

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
Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game, by Michael Lewis	3
The Bullpen Gospels: Major League Dreams of a Minor League Veteran, by Dirk Hayhurst	4
The Game from Where I Stand: A Ballplayer’s Inside View, by Doug Glanville	5
Essays and Writing
Moneyball	1
The Bullpen Gospels	2
The Game From Where I Stand	3
Men at Work: The Craft of Baseball, by George F. Will	4
Sixty Feet, Six Inches: A Hall of Fame Pitcher & a Hall of Fame Hitter Talk about How the Game is Played, By Bob Gibson and Reggie Jackson	5
History
Willie Mays: The Life, The Legend, by James S. Hirsch	1
Of Mikes and Men: A Lifetime of Braves Baseball, by Pete Van Wieren	2
Are We Winning?: Fathers and Sons in the New Golden Age of Baseball, by Will Leitch	3
Shattered: Struck Down, But Not Destroyed, by Frank Pastore	4
The Wire-to-Wire Reds: Sweet Lou, Nasty Boys, and the Wild Run to a World Championship, by John Erardi	5
Statistics
Watching Baseball Smarter: A Professional Fan’s Guide for Beginners, Semi-experts, and Deeply Serious Geeks, by Zack Hample	1
Baseball Between the Numbers: Why Everything You Know About the Game Is Wrong, by Baseball Prospectus	2
The Book: Playing the Percentages in Baseball, by Tango et al	3
Baseball America 2010 Prospect Handbook: The Comprehensive Guide to Rising Stars from the Definitive Source on Prospects (Baseball America Prospect Handbook)	4
Baseball Prospectus 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: Bill Madden’s biography on George Steinbrenner weighs in at #11 on The New York Times hardcover non-fiction 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.