The Book Sense Sports and Hobbies Bestseller List

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For the four-week period ending June 6, 2004, and based on reporting from hundreds of independent bookstores across the U.S.

Past Category Bestseller lists are available at www.bookweb.org/read/5677.

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The Book Sense Sports and Hobbies Bestseller List
1.

Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
Michael M. Lewis, Norton, $13.95, 0393324818

2.

The Teammates: A Portrait of a Friendship
David Halberstam, Hyperion, $12.95, 0786888679

3.

The Perfect Mile: Three Athletes, One Goal, and Less Than Four Minutes to Achieve It
Neal Bascomb, Houghton Mifflin, $24, 0618391126

4.

Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival
Joe Simpson, Perennial, $12.95, 0060730552

5.

Who's Your Caddy?: Looping for the Great, Near Great, and Reprobates of Golf
Rick Reilly, Broadway, $14.95, 0767917405

6.

Caddy for Life: The Bruce Edwards Story
John Feinstein, Little Brown, $25.95, 0316777889

7.

A Year at the Races: Reflections on Horses, Humans, Love, Money, and Luck
Jane Smiley, Knopf, $22, 1400040582

8.

Ted Williams: The Biography of an American Hero
Leigh Montville, Doubleday, $26.95, 0385507488

9.

It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life
Lance Armstrong, Berkley, $14, 0425179613

10.

I Call the Shots: Straight Talk About the Game of Golf Today
Johnny Miller, Gotham, $26, 1592400655

11.

Positively Fifth Street
James McManus, Picador, $15, 0312422520

12.

Seabiscuit: An American Legend
Laura Hillenbrand, Ballantine, $15.95, 0449005615

13.

Funny Cide: How a Horse, a Trainer, a Jockey, and a Bunch of High School Buddies Took on the Sheiks and Blue Bloods ... and Won
Funny Cide Team (Eds.), Putnam, $24.95, 0399151796

14.

Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster
Jon Krakauer, Anchor, $13.95, 0385494785

15.

Ben Hogan: An American Life
James Dodson, Doubleday, $27.50, 0385503121

16.

Triumph and Tragedy in Mudville: A Lifelong Passion for Baseball
Stephen Jay Gould, Norton, $14.95, 0393325571

17.

The Tour de France Companion: A Nuts & Bolts [And Spokes] Guide to the Greatest Race in the World
Bob Roll, Workman, $10.95, 0761135200

18.

My Losing Season
Pat Conroy, Bantam, $14.95, 0553381903

19.

Fifty Places to Fly Fish Before You Die: Fly-Fishing Experts Share the Worlds Greatest Destinations
Chris Santella, Stuart, Tabori and Chang, $24.95, 1584793562

20.

Open: Inside the Ropes at Bethpage Black
John Feinstein, Back Bay, $14.95, 0316778524

21.

The Last Best League: One Summer, One Season, One Dream
Jim Collins, Da Capo, $24, 0738209015

22.

Every Second Counts
Lance Armstrong, Broadway, $14, 0767914481

23.

Play Baseball the Ripken Way: The Complete Illustrated Guide to the Fundamentals
Cal Ripken Jr., Bill Ripken, Random House, $24.95, 1400061229

24.

The Mad Dog 100: The Greatest Sports Arguments of All Time
Chris Russo, Broadway Books, $12.95, 0767914627

25.

Swimming to Antarctica: Tales of a Long-Distance Swimmer
Lynne Cox, Knopf, $24.95, 0375415076

26.

Watching Baseball: Discovering the Game Within the Game
Jerry Remy, Corey Sandler, Globe Pequot, $13.95, 0762730757

27.

Baseball Top 10
James Buckley Jr., David Fischer, DK, $9.99, 075660320X

28.

My Personal Best: Life Lessons From an All-American Journey
John Wooden, McGraw-Hill, $19.95, 0071437924

29.

Catch and Release: Trout Fishing and the Meaning of Life
Mark Kingwell, Viking, $21.95, 0670033340

30.

Sports Star Mad Libs Junior
Roger Price, Leonard  Stern, Price Stern Sloan, $3.99, 0843107707

31.

Stairway Walks in San Francisco
Adah Bakalinsky, Wilderness Press, $14.95, 0899973566

32.

Game Time: A Baseball Companion
Roger Angell, Harvest, $15, 0156013878

33.

The Bad Guys Won!
Jeff Pearlman, HarperCollins, $24.95, 0060507322

34.

At the Grave of the Unknown Fisherman
John Gierach, S&S, $13, 0743229932

35.

1,001 Facts About Hitters
James Buckley, Jr., Matt Marini, DK, $8.99, 075660494X

36.

Chi Running: A Revolutionary Approach to Effortless, Injury-Free Running
Danny Dreyer, Fireside, $14, 074325144X

37.

Take Me Out to the Ballpark: An Illustrated Tour of Baseball Parks Past and Present
Josh Leventhal, Black Dog & Leventhal, $29.95, 1579123325

38.

Good Morning Midnight: Life and Death in the Wild
Chip Brown, Riverhead, $15, 1573223794

39.

Me and My Dad: A Baseball Memoir
Paul O'Neill, Burton Rocks, Perennial, $13.95, 0060595795

40.

Fly-Fishing the 41st -- From Connecticut to Mongolia and Home Again: A Fisherman's Odyssey
James Prosek, Perennial, $13.95, 0060555920

41.

Eyewitness: Baseball
James Kelley, DK, $15.99, 0789452413

42.

Catch a Fish, Throw a Ball, Fly a Kite: Twenty-One Timeless Skills Every Child Should Know (and Any Parent Can Teach!)
Jeffrey Lee, Three Rivers, $12.95, 1400048109

43.

Somewhere in Ireland a Village Is Missing an Idiot
David Feherty, Rugged Land, $13.95, 1590710223

44.

Hank Aaron and the Home Run That Changed America
Tom Stanton, Morrow, $23.95, 0060579765

45.

1001 Reasons to Love Baseball
Danny Peary, Mary Tiegreen, Stuart, Tabori and Chang, $24.95, 1584793546

46.

Baseball and Philosophy
Eric Bronson (Ed.), Open Court, $17.95, 0812695569

47.

The Long Ball: The Summer of '75 -- Spaceman, Catfish, Charlie Hustle, and the Greatest World Series Ever Played
Tom Adelman, Back Bay, $14.95, 0316796441

48.

In Service to the Horse: Chronicles of a Labor of Love
Susan Nusser, Little Brown, $25.95, 0316806315

49.

Afternoons With Mr. Hogan: A Boy, a Golf Legend, and the Lessons of a Lifetime
Jody Vasquez, Gotham, $20, 1592400515

50.

Sandy Koufax: A Lefty's Legacy
Jane Leavy, Perennial, $13.95, 0060933291