Baseball Book Blog

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 that, it’s mostly more of the same with just one debut.

1) Yankee Stadium: The Official Retrospective
2) The 33 Year Old Rookie
3) Moneyball
4) Living on the Black
5) We Would Have Played for Nothing
6) You Can Observe A Lot By Watching
7) Yankee For Life
Rob Neyer’s Big Book of Baseball Legends
9) Deep Drive
10) San Francisco Giants: 50 Years

Yogi Berra’s new book, You Can Observe A Lot By Watching, looks like a fantastic read.  I did get a couple of new books on the shelf recently, one of which I’m particularly interested in telling you about but I’ll save it for another day.

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, it might be worth a second look.  At the time, I was actually looking for one of Lewis’ other books, Liars Poker, at the library yet came up short and settled for Moneyball, which I wanted to read eventually anyway.

And not only has Moneyball stayed in the top ten, it’s secured the top spot.  I missed last week and had I done a list, it would have been Moneyball at the top then too.  I’m not sure why it popped up to the top spot, but the book gets regular mentions so I’m not surprised.

Anyway, here’s the top ten…

1)  Moneyball
2) Living on the Black
3) The 33 Year Old Rookie
4) Yankee Stadium: The Official Retrospective
5) Rob Neyer’s Big Book of Baseball Legends
6) We Would Have Played for Nothing
7) Deep Drive
Yankee For Life
9) Red Sox Rule
10) San Francisco Giants: 50 Years

There’s two debuts near the bottom of the list.  Yankee for Life, which is written by Bobby Murcer, looks like a very interesting read.  And just making the list is the 50 year look at the Giants in San Francisco.  A lot of noise has been made about the Dodgers move 50 years ago but the Giants also headed west with them and this looks like an interesting look at what’s gone down the past 50 years.