Baseball Historians

I’ve stopped counting the times I’ve restarted this site but for the forseeable future, I have no more excuses, so here we go, 1) The Yankee Years 2) Baseball Prospectus 2009: The Essential Guide to the 2009 Baseball Season 3) Odd Man Out: …

Okay, it’s been a while.  Here’s what the top ten baseball books look according to this site’s new year… 1) 2) 3) 4) 5) 6) 7) 9) 10) You can definitely tell it’s Annual season, although I was surprised Moneyball found …

My restart here had been tepid at best but I’m going to forget the pity party and get right to the list… 1) Moneyball 2) Watching Baseball Smarter 3) Yankee Stadium: The Official Retrospective 4) The Natural 5) Yankee For Life 6) The 33 Yea…

Yeah, it’s been almost two months.  Work is the primary excuse but that settled down a few weeks ago.  I sort of locked myself into Sundays here so usually what happened is, Sunday’s would come, I’d be busy, and I’d put it off…

There’s little doubt that Yankee Stadium is iconic in nature so it’s no surprise that with the All Star Game coming to the Bronx, that Yankee Stadium: The Official Retrospective would eventually top the baseball book list.  Outside of tha…

Since I started doing these lists, the only book that has stayed in the top ten week in and week out has been Moneyball by Michael Lewis.  I read it about a year after it came out and found it an interesting read but with it having such staying power,…

Nothing new except in the order in this weeks Top Ten…
1) The 33 Year Old Rookie
2) Moneyball
3) Yankee Stadium: The Official Retrospective
4) Living on the Black
5) We Would Have Played for Nothing
6) Cubs Forever
7) Rob Neyer’s Big Book of Baseball Legends
Vindicated
9) The Mental ABC’s of Pitching
10) Baseball Prospectus 2008
Living on the Black made [...]

I took a couple of weeks off on this and ironically, without a lot of new entrants into the mix, the list is most of the same books from three weeks ago, albeit in a different order.  We have a new number one which is interesting but here’s the list:
1) The 33 Year Old Rookie
2) [...]

For the second week in a row, we have a new number one book on the Amazon.com top ten baseball book list.  This week it’s H.A. Dorfman’s The Mental ABC’s of Pitching.  The book came out in 2000 and it looks like a New York Times editorial a couple of weeks ago is what caused [...]

I know the past few weeks the only content I’ve provided is the top ten list but I’m hoping for that to change soon.  I’m making my way through a few books and I have a few new ones on the way.  In the meantime, keeping on my regular Sunday schedule has at least given [...]

I’m a day late here, but it’s opening day so there’s no better day then to talk about baseball.  Anyway, there’s quite a few debuts this week so let’s get to the list.
1) Baseball Prospectus 2008
2) Vindicated
3) Moneyball
4) The 33 Year Old Rookie
5) Bill James Goldmine 2008
6) Yankee Stadium: The Official Retrospective
7) Red Sox Rule
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There’s a couple of newcomers this week.  It’s interesting how a few days can shift this list a lot.  Just a couple of days ago, the 33 Year Old Rookie would have been near the bottom but it’s had a good showing while the ESPN Encyclopedia was moving up only to plummet off the list [...]

Let’s get right to the list…
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Alright, this kicks off my daily feature of discussing the current top ten book list over at Amazon.com.  Of course by the time you read this, the list very well may have changed so bear with me.   Here’s a look at the list:
1) Baseball Prospectus 2008
2) Baseball America 2008 Prospect Handbook
3) Bill James Goldmine 2008
4) [...]