TWIBB: June 25, 2010

June 25, 2010

The top baseball books, according to Amazon.com as of Friday, June 25.

Title Rank
General
Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game, by Michael Lewis 1
Steinbrenner: The Last Lion of Baseball, by Bill Madden 2
The Game from Where I Stand: A Ballplayer’s Inside View, by Doug Glanville 3
The Bullpen Gospels: Major League Dreams of a Minor League Veteran, by Dirk Hayhurst 4
The Last Hero: A Life of Henry Aaron, by Howard Bryant 5
Essays and Writing
Moneyball 1
The Game from Where I Stand 2
The Bullpen Gospels 3
Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu: John Updike on Ted Williams, by John Updike 4
The Mental Keys to Hitting: A Handbook of Strategies for Performance Enhancement, by H.A. Dorfman 5
History
Willie Mays: The Life, The Legend, by James Hirsch 1
Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu 2
Big Hair and Plastic Grass: A Funky Ride Through Baseball and America in the Swinging ’70s, by Dan Epstein 3
The Philadelphia Phillies: An Extraordinary Tradition, by Scott Gummer 4
Are We Winning?: Fathers and Sons in the New Golden Age of Baseball, by Will Leitch 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
Rotisserie League Baseball, 1996: The Official Rule Book and Draft-Day Guide, by Glen Waggoner 3
Baseball Prospectus 2010 4
Traded: Inside the Most Lopsided Trades in Baseball History, by Doug Decatur 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 rises to #18 on The New York Times hardcover non-fiction list. No baseball titles in Amazon’s overall top 100, but Moneyball and Steinbrenner are in the top 20 sports best-sellers.

It’s news to me: What the heck is a 1996 book about Rotisserie baseball doing in the top five for statistics? And how could it possibly be outselling Baseball Prospectus?

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