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 all of the interest in the book. It looks like an interesting read and it almost looks more like a personal development book (which I buy and read) then a true baseball book. Worth checking out. Dorfmann’s other book, The Mental Game of Baseball, also made the top ten list. Speaking of the list, here it is…
1) The Mental ABC’s of Pitching
2) Yankee Stadium: The Official Retrospective
3) Vindicated
4) Baseball Prospectus 2008
5) We Would Have Played for Nothing
6) Moneyball
7) The 33 Year Old Rookie
 Rob Neyer’s Big Book of Baseball Legends
9) The Mental Game of Baseball
10) But Didn’t We Have Fun
The only new book to the list was Dorfmann’s aforementioned The Mental Game of Baseball. Bill James Goldmine is a casualty this week and Baseball Prospectus 2008 falls all the to four. This isn’t a knock on them because it’s an exceptional book. They held the top spot for several weeks which is no small task and the fact that they’re still fourth after all these weeks shows the staying power of the franchise.
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