The Book Sense 'Play Ball' Bestseller List

1.

Watching Baseball Smarter: A Professional Fan's Guide for Beginners, Semi-Experts, and Deeply Serious Geeks
Zack Hample, Vintage, $13.95, 9780307280329

2.

Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
Michael M. Lewis, Norton, $13.95, 9780393324815

3.

Game of Shadows: Barry Bonds, Balco, and the Steroids Scandal That Rocked Professional Sports
Mark Fainaru-Wada, Lance Williams, Gotham, $15, 9781592402687

4.

Feeding the Monster: How Money, Smarts, and Nerve Took a Team to the Top
Seth Mnookin, S&S, $15, 9780743286824

5.

The Bronx Is Burning: 1977, Baseball, Politics, and the Battle for the Soul of a City
Jonathan Mahler, Picador, $15, 9780312427023

6.

Baseball on the Brain: 1,003 Trivia Challenges
Dennis Purdy, Workman, $14.95, 9780761140344

7.

Summer of '49
David Halberstam, Harper Perennial, $14.95, 9780060884260

8.

The Teammates
David Halberstam, Hyperion, $13.95, 9780786888672

9.

Clemente: The Passion and Grace of Baseball's Last Hero
David Maraniss, S&S, $15, 9780743299992

10.

The Big Bam: The Life and Times of Babe Ruth
Leigh Montville, Broadway, $15.95, 9780767919715

11.

Crazy '08: How a Cast of Cranks, Rogues, Boneheads, and Magnates Created the Greatest Year in Baseball History
Cait Murphy, Collins, $24.95, 9780060889371

12.

The Cheater's Guide to Baseball
Derek Zumsteg, Houghton Mifflin, $13.95, 9780618551132

13.

Black and Blue: Sandy Koufax, the Robinson Boys, and the World Series That Stunned America
Tom Adelman, Back Bay, $13.99, 9780316067157

14.

Senior Year: A Father, A Son, and High School Baseball
Dan Shaughnessy, Houghton Mifflin, $24, 9780618729050

15.

Baseball Between the Numbers: Why Everything You Know About the Game Is Wrong
Baseball Prospectus Team of Experts, Perseus, $15, 9780465005475

16.

Sports Illustrated: The Baseball Book
Rob Fleder (Ed.), Sports Illustrated, $29.95, 9781933405230

17.

Baseball Treasures
Stephen Wong, Collins, $16.99, 9780061144646

18.

Heroes of the Negro Leagues
Jack Morelli, Mark Chiarello (Illus.), HNA, $19.95, 9780810994348

19.

Haunted Baseball: Ghosts, Curses, Legends, and Eerie Events
Mickey Bradley, Dan Gordon, Lyons Press, $14.95, 9781599210223

20.

Just Play Ball
Joe Garagiola, Northland, $21.95, 9780873589239

21.

Smithsonian Baseball: Inside the World's Finest Private Collections
Stephen Wong, Collins, $21.95, 9780061121210

22.

Baseball Field Guide: An In-Depth Illustrated Guide to the Complete Rules of Baseball
Dan Formosa, Paul Hamburger, Thunder's Mouth, $13.95, 9781560257004

23.

Best by Number: Who Wore What With Distinction
The Sporting News (Eds.), The Sporting News, $24.95, 9780892048489

24.

Great Baseball Feats, Facts and Firsts
David Nemec, Scott Flatow, Signet, $7.99, 9780451220929

25.

The ESPN Baseball Encyclopedia
Gary Gillette (Ed.), Sterling, $24.95, 9781402747717