TWIBB: Sept. 10, 2010

September 10, 2010

The top baseball books, according to Amazon.com as of Friday, Sept. 10.

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 Baseball Codes: Beanballs, Sign Stealing, and Bench-Clearing Brawls: The Unwritten Rules of America’s Pastime by Jason Turbow and Michael Duca 4
Science of Hitting, by Ted Williams and John Underwood 5
Essays and Writing
Moneyball 1
The Game From Where I Stand 2
The Bullpen Gospels: Major League Dreams of a Minor League Veteran, by Dirk Hayhurst 3
Nolan Ryan’s Pitcher’s Bible: The Ultimate Guide to Power, Precision, and Long-Term Performance, by Skip Bayless 4
Ball Four, by Jim Bouton 5
History
The Philadelphia Phillies: An Extraordinary Tradition, by Scott Gummer 1
Willie Mays: The Life, The Legend, by James S. Hirsch 2
The Mental ABC’s of Pitching: A Handbook for Performance Enhancement by H.A. Dorfman 3
Big Hair and Plastic Grass: A Funky Ride Through Baseball and America in the Swinging ’70s, by Dan Epstein 4
Shattered: Struck Down, But Not Destroyed, by Frank Pastore 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
Baseball Between the Numbers: Why Everything You Know About the Game Is Wrong, by Baseball Prospectus 3
The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract
 4
The ESPN Baseball Encyclopedia, Fifth Edition 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: The only baseball titles in the top 20 Amazon’s sports bestseller list were Moneyball (15). There are no baseball titles on the NY Times list.

It’s news to me: Jim Bouton’s Ball Four is back on the list, in this, its 40th anniversary yeat. Frank Pastore has his own tale to tell in Shattered.

The Bullpen Gospels
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