Baseball Best-Sellers, November 6, 2026

Amazon keeps changing the way they report, so that will be mirrored here. Sometimes there will be rankings of Kindle and audio-books on baseball, other times, not.

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 (see my piece on “Why Amazon’s search engine sucks“).

In addition, occasionally the powers-that-be over there try to pull a fast one by including a book in a category in 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 Amazon’s 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 (i.e., 12 and under). Also no “adult” adult books (romance/erotic fiction that features baseball as a theme although goodness knows there are a bunch of those out there).

So, with all that said…

The links under the authors’ names will take you to the Bookshelf Conversations I had with them. An asterisk denotes a book making its debut on the BBS list. And a “Ω” means it’s an award winner, almost always in the print version.

PRINT

1. Our Way: How The Milwaukee Brewers Captured a Historic World Series Title, published by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Available Nov. 10)
2. Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game, by Michael Lewis Ω
3. The Cloudbuster Nine: The Untold Story of Ted Williams and the Baseball Team That Helped Win World War II, by Anne R. Keene (my Bookshelf review here)
4. It’s All About the Players, by Peter Gammons (my review on Bookreporter)
5. Relentless: A Milwaukee Brewers World Series Commemorative Book, published by KCI * (Available Nov. 10)
6. The Ultimate Baseball Trivia Challenge: Over 600 Quiz Questions for Die-Hard Baseball Fans, by Hank Patton
7. Why We Love Baseball: A History in 50 Moments, by Joe Posnanski (my review on Bookreporter) Ω
8. Touching All the Bases: A Story of Power, Purpose, and Surviving the Bronx, by Dave Winfield with Alan Maimon
9. Heads-Up Baseball : Playing the Game One Pitch at a Time, by Tom Hanson and Ken Ravizza 
10. The Baseball 100, by Posnanski

KINDLE

1. Another Chance, by Stu Moss *
2. The Bosses of the Bronx: The Endless Drama of the Yankees Under the House of Steinbrenner, by Mike Vaccaro (my review on Bookreporter, as part of a feature on 2026 baseball titles)
3. 1954: The Year Willie Mays and the First Generation of Black Superstars Changed Major League Baseball Forever, by Bill Madden
4. David Halberstam on Sports: Summer of ’49, October 1964, The Amateurs, Playing for Keeps
5. The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports, by Jeff Passan
6. Unhittable: How Technology, Mavericks, and Innovators Engineered Baseball’s New Era of Pitching Dominance, by Rob Friedman
7. Sandy Koufax: A Lefty’s Legacy, by Jane Leavy
8. Pinstripe Empire: The New York Yankees from Before the Babe to After the Boss, by Marty Appel (Kindle Plus, see note)
9. 3 Nights in August: Strategy, Heartbreak, and Joy Inside the Mind of a Manager, by Buzz Bissinger
10. Eight Men Out: The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series, by Eliot Asinof

AUDIO BOOKS

1. Ball Four: The Final Pitch, by Jim Bouton (narrated by the author)
2. The Glory of Their Times: The Story of the Early Days of Baseball Told by the Men Who Played It, by Lawrence Ritter
3. Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx Is Burning: 1977, Baseball, Politics, and the Battle for the Soul of a City, by Jonathan Mahler
4. Rickey: The Life and Legend of an American Original, by Howard Bryant
5. The Methany Manifesto, by Mike Methany with Jerry B. Jenkins

Note: These books are included as Kindle Plus (formerly unlimited, because there actually is a limit on how many Kindle titles you can borrow at any one time). See the books’ pages for details.

A reminder: These are are among Amazon’s top 100 baseball titles and there may not be enough “appropriate” ones to fill the ten slots in all three categories.

Not surprised to see another book about the Brewers hit the list. Still surprised that it’s not immediately available.

Still not in the Amazon top ten? 501 Baseball Books Fans Must Read before They Die. FYI, as of this posting it ranks 3,209,628 in books overall; last time, 3,184,071. Hank Greenberg in 1938: Hatred and Home Runs in the Shadow of War ranks 3,653,853 ; last time, 3,628,505.

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 dictionary; it has the other books in it, which reminds me of one of my favorite lines from one of my favorite shows.

BUT…

Some exciting news (now we’ll see who’s paying attention and reading down this far).

Necessity is the mother of invention. Thanks to emergency surgery in which I said goodbye to a recalcitrant gallbladder, I have a couple off months for recuperation during which time I will be working on a revision of 501.

The new version will include all the original stuff but as you know if you’re a baseball reading fool, there have been a lot of great books published since 501 came out a dozen years ago. So since this isn’t a ranking where one title might be pushed off the list, the new material will appear as an added chapter.

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.