TWIBB: Jan. 21, 2011

January 21, 2011

The top baseball books, according to Amazon.com as of Friday, Jan. 21 at 9 p.m.

Title Rank
General
Baseball Prospectus 2011 1
Baseball America 2011 Prospect Handbook: The 2011 Expert Guide to Baseball Prospects and MLB Organization Rankings (Baseball America Prospect Handbook) 2
The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America’s Childhood, by Jane Leavy 3
Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game, by Michael Lewis 4
Beyond Belief: Finding the Strength to Come Back, by Josh Hamilton with Tim Keown 5
Essays and Writing
Moneyball 1
The Bullpen Gospels: Major League Dreams of a Minor League Veteran, by Dirk Hayhurst 2
Beyond Belief 3
Ball Four, by Jim Bouton 4
The Game from Where I Stand: A Ballplayer’s Inside View, by Doug Glanville 5
History
San Francisco Giants Torture to Rapture 2010 World Series Champions, by San Francisco Chronicle 1
Baseball America 2011 Almanac: A Comprehensive Review of the 2010 Season (Baseball America Almanac) 2
Willie Mays: The Life, The Legend, by James S. Hirsch 3
Rothstein: The Life, Times, and Murder of the Criminal Genius Who Fixed the 1919 World Series, by David Pietrusza 4
Now I Can Die in Peace: How The Sports Guy Found Salvation Thanks to the World Champion (Twice!) Red Sox, by Bill Simmons 5
Statistics
Baseball America Prospects, by 1
Baseball Forecaster 2011, by Ron Shandler 2
The Bill James Handbook 2011 3
Baseball America Almanac, by 4
Baseball Between the Numbers: Why Everything You Know About the Game Is Wrong 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 titles in Amazon’s 100 overall best sellers, although several are in the sports category including Baseball Prospectus 2011 (#6), Baseball America Prospects Handbook (12), The Last Boy (13), Moneyball (15), and The Baseball Forecaster 2011 (17). The Last Boy is also #16 on the NY Times‘ hardcover non-fiction list.

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