Baseball Best-Sellers, July 15, 2022

July 15, 2022

A reminder: The Amazon rankings are updated every hour, so these lists might not be 100 percent accurate by the time you read them (or even by the time I finish posting them). But close enough for government work, as the saying goes.

In addition, occasionally the powers-that-be over there try to pull a fast one by including a book in a category to which it should not be listed (in my opinion). For example, The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect has appeared on the BBS list. “Why” is a good question. There might be a smattering of the national pastime in it, but not enough to make it a baseball book per se (again, IMO).

Finally, adults only here. That is, no books for younger readers. Also no “adult” books here, that is, no romance/erotic fiction that features baseball as a theme either (although goodness knows there are a bunch of those).

So, with all that said…

The links under the authors’ names will take you to the Bookshelf Conversations I did with them. The asterisk denotes the author is a “member” of the Pandemic Baseball Book Club.

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  1. https://i2.wp.com/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/91N7B9MLZUL.jpg?resize=250%2C366&ssl=1The Church of Baseball: The Making of Bull Durham: Home Runs, Bad Calls, Crazy Fights, Big Swings, and a Hit, by Ron Shelton
  2. Rickey: The Life and Legend of an American Original, by Howard Bryant
  3. A Fan’s Guide to Baseball Analytics: Why WAR, WHIP, wOBA, and Other Advanced Sabermetrics Are Essential to Understanding Modern Baseball, by Anthony Castrovince
  4. The Cloudbuster Nine: The Untold Story of Ted Williams and the Baseball Team That Helped Win World War II, by Anne R. Keene
  5. Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game, by Michael Lewis
  6. The Baseball 100, by Joe Posnanski
  7. Mind of a Superior Hitter: The Art, Science and Philosophy, by Michael McCree
  8. Beckett Baseball Card Price Guide 2022
  9. The Science of Hitting, by Ted Williams with John Underwood
  10. The Ultimate New York Yankees Trivia Book: A Collection of Amazing Trivia Quizzes and Fun Facts for Die-Hard Yankees Fans!, by Ray Walker

KINDLE BOOKS

  1. A Fan’s Guide to Baseball Analytics
  2. The Church of Baseball
  3. Rickey
  4. Moneyball
  5. The Sputnik Season: 1957, by Noel Hynd
  6. How to Beat a Broken Game: The Rise of the Dodgers in a League on the Brink, by Pedro Moura
  7. Cloudbuster Nine
  8. I Had a Hammer, by Hank Aaron and Lonnie Wheeler
  9. Beauty at Short: Dave Bancroft, the Most Unlikely Hall of Famer and His Wild Times in Baseball’s First Century, by Tom Alesia
  10. Doc: A Memoir, by Dwight Gooden and Ellis Henican

AUDIBLE

Note: Amazon has changed the way they list audiobooks. No longer under the general category of “biography and memoir,” they are now treated in their own baseball/softball category. Here’s the general link to the section where you will find further links to the individual titles, their reader/narrators, and samples. Note further that these are updated regularly and the top ten list below might no longer be the same.

  1. Moneyball (unabridged, narrated by Scott Brick)
  2. Rickey
  3. The Church of Baseball
  4. The Baseball 100
  5. Ty Cobb: A Terrible Beauty, by Charles Leershen
  6. Calico Joe, by John Grisham
  7. Sho-Time: The Inside Story of Shohei Ohtani and the Greatest Baseball Season Ever Played, by Jeff Fletcher
  8. The Bad Guys Won, by Jeff Perlman
  9. The Science of Hitting
  10. Heads-Up Baseball, by Dr. Ken Ravizza

Practically the same as last week for the first two categories, so not even bothering to change the picture.

Still not in the Amazon top ten? 501 Baseball Books Fans Must Read before They Die. FYI, right now it ranks at 2,210,003 overall in books; last time, 1,906,263. Hank Greenberg in 1938: Hatred and Home Runs in the Shadow of War ranks 2,120,350; last time, 2,095,583. Still only $1.99 for the Kindle version which ranks 158,214 and is in the top 25 (!) in three categories: Teen & Young Adult Baseball & Softball Nonfiction eBooks (also 10); Baseball Statistics (12), and Teen & Young Adult Baseball & Softball (22, and still not sure what the difference is between this and the previous).

Shameless self-promotion: if you’re looking for some good baseball reading during this down time, why not pick up a copy of 501? It’s like the abridged dictionary; it has most of the other books in it.

A reminder: There’s an Excel “checklist” of the books list in 501. If you’re interested in keeping track of how many you have read or own, drop me a line.

If you have read either of my books, thanks, hope you enjoyed it, and please consider writing an Amazon review; it’s never too late.

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