The Book Sense Baseball Bestseller List

Posted Tuesday, Oct 4, 2005

Based on sales in independent bookstores with Book Sense nationwide for the eight-week period ending October 2, 2005.

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

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The Book Sense Baseball Bestseller List

1.

Moneyball
Michael M. Lewis, Norton, $13.95, 0393324818

2.

Three Nights in August
Buzz Bissinger, Houghton Mifflin, $25, 0618405445

3.

Coach
Michael Lewis, Norton, $12.95, 0393060918

4.

Praying for Gil Hodges: A Memoir of the 1955 World Series and One Family's Love of the Brooklyn Dodgers
Thomas Oliphant, Thomas Dunne, $24.95, 0312317611

5.

Juiced
Jose Canseco, ReganBooks, $25.95, 0060746408

6.

Faithful: Two Diehard Boston Red Sox Fans Chronicle the Historic 2004 Season
Stewart O'Nan, Stephen King, Scribner, $15, 0743267532

7.

Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig
Jonathan Eig, S&S, $26, 0743245911

8.

Idiot: Beating "The Curse" and Enjoying the Game of Life
Johnny Damon, Crown, $24, 030723763X

9.

The Old Ball Game: How John McGraw, Christy Mathewson, and the New York Giants Created Modern Baseball
Frank Deford, Atlantic Monthly, $24, 0871138859

10.

The Last Best League: One Summer, One Season, One Dream
Jim Collins, Da Capo, $14.95, 0306814188

11.

The Teammates
David Halberstam, Hyperion, $12.95, 0786888679

12.

Reversing the Curse: Inside the 2004 Boston Red Sox
Dan Shaughnessy, Houghton Mifflin, $23, 0618517480

13.

Juicing the Game: Drugs, Power, and the Fight for the Soul of Major League Baseball
Howard Bryant, Viking, $24.95, 0670034452

14.

One Day at Fenway: A Day in the Life of Baseball in America
Steve Kettmann, Atria, $14, 0743483669

15.

101 Reasons to Love the Red Sox: And 10 Reasons to Hate the Yankees
David Green, Stewart, Tabori and Chang, $14.95, 158479402X

16.

Sports Illustrated: Great Baseball Writing
Rob Fleder (Ed.), Sports Illustrated, $25.95, 1932994025

17.

Ted Williams: The Biography of an American Hero
Leigh Montville, Broadway, $16.95, 0767913205

18.

Bat Boy: My True Life Adventures Coming of Age With the New York Yankees
Matthew McGough, Doubleday, $22.95, 0385510209

19.

Watching Baseball, Updated & Revised: Discovering the Game Within the Game
Jerry Remy, Globe Pequot, $14.95, 0762737492

20.

Now I Can Die in Peace: How ESPN's Sports Guy Found Salvation, With a Little Help From Normar, Pedro, Shawshank, and the 2004 Red Sox
Bill Simmons, ESPN, $24.95, 1933060050

21.

A Tale of Two Cities: The 2004 Yankees-Red Sox Rivalry and the War for the Pennant
Tony Massarotti, John Harper, Lyons Press, $14.95, 1592287042

22.

Grand Old Game: 365 Days of Baseball
Joseph Wallace, Abrams, $29.95, 0810955946

23.

The Boston Red Sox Fan Book: Revised to Include the 2004 Championship Season!
David S. Neft, et al., St. Martin's Griffin, $12.95, 0312348495

24.

Wrecking Crew: The Really Bad News Griffith Park Pirates
John Albert, Scribner, $23, 0743246322

25.

Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx Is Burning: 1977, Baseball, Politics, and the Battle for the Soul of a City
Jonathan Mahler, FSG, $25, 0374175284
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