TWIBB: June 18, 2010
June 18, 2010
The top baseball books, according to Amazon.com as of Friday, June 18.
| 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 |
Willie Mays: The Life, The Legend , by James Hirsch |
3 |
Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game , by Michael Lewis |
4 |
The Bullpen Gospels: Major League Dreams of a Minor League Veteran , by Dirk Hayhurst |
5 |
| Essays and Writing |
Moneyball
|
1 |
| The Bullpen Gospels |
2 |
The Game from Where I Stand: A Ballplayer’s Inside View , by Doug Glanville |
3 |
Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu: John Updike on Ted Williams , by John Updike |
4 |
Ball Four , by Jim Bouton |
5 |
| History |
| Willie Mays: The Life, The Legend |
1 |
The Philadelphia Phillies: An Extraordinary Tradition , by Scott Gummer |
2 |
| Kiss It Good-Bye: The Mystery, The Mormon, and the Moral of the 1960 Pittsburgh Pirates, by John Moody |
3 |
Are We Winning?: Fathers and Sons in the New Golden Age of Baseball , by Will Leitch |
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 Tom Tango et al |
2 |
The Bill James Handbook 2010 |
3 |
Baseball Between the Numbers: Why Everything You Know About the Game Is Wrong , by Baseball Prospectus |
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 drops to #20 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.
The interest in John Moody’s tribute to the 1960 Pirates — is that an editorial comment on how poorly the 2010 version is doing? Just askin’.
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