The Indie October Baseball Bestseller List

With the Major League Baseball post-season now underway, we present the Indie October Baseball Bestseller List, based on sales in independent bookstores nationwide for the eight-week period ending October 10, 2010.

1. Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu: John Updike on Ted Williams
John Updike, Library of America, $15, 9781598530711

2. Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
Michael Lewis, Norton, $14.95, 9780393324815

3. Satchel: The Life and Times of an American Legend
Larry Tye, Random House, $16, 9780812977974

4. The Baseball Codes: Beanballs, Sign Stealing, and Bench-Clearing Brawls – The Unwritten Rules of America’s Pastime

Michael Duca, Jason Turbow, Pantheon, $25, 9780375424694

5. Steinbrenner: The Last Lion of Baseball
Bill Madden, Harper, $26.99, 9780061690310

6. The Bullpen Gospels: Major League Dreams of a Minor League Veteran
Dirk Hayhurst, Citadel, $14.95, 9780806531434

7. Willie Mays: The Life, The Legend
James S. Hirsch, Scribner, $30, 9781416547907

8. The Yankee Years
Joe Torre, Tom Verducci, Anchor, $16.95, 9780767930420

9. The Game From Where I Stand: A Ballplayer’s Inside View
Doug Glanville, Times Books, $25, 9780805091595

10. The Yogi Book
Yogi Berra, Workman, $8.95, 9780761154433

11. The Eastern Stars: How Baseball Changed the Dominican Town of San Pedro de Macoris
Mark Kurlansky, Riverhead, $25.95, 9781594487507

12. Baseball From A to Z
Michael P. Spradlin, Macky Pamintuan (Illus.), Harper, $16.99, 9780061240812

13. Big Hair and Plastic Grass: A Funky Ride Through Baseball and America in the Swinging ’70s
Dan Epstein, Thomas Dunne, $25.99, 9780312607548

14. Rickwood Field: A Century in America’s Oldest Ballpark
Allen Barra, Norton, $27.95, 9780393069334

15. Cooperstown Confidential: Heroes, Rogues, and the Inside Story of the Baseball Hall of Fame
Zev Chafets, Bloomsbury, $15, 9781608192106

16. Ball Four
Jim Bouton, Wiley, $15.95, 9780020306658

17. As They See ‘em: A Fan’s Travels in the Land of Umpires
Bruce Weber, Scribner, $16, 9780743294133

18. Game Six: Cincinnati, Boston, and the 1975 World Series
Mark Frost, Hyperion, $15.99, 9781401310264

19. Giants Past & Present
Dan Fost, MVP Books, $25, 9780760338063

20. The Funniest Baseball Book Ever
Peter Handrinos, Andrews McMeel, $14.99, 9780740791284

21. Big League Ballparks: The Complete Illustrated History
Gary Gillette, et al., Metro, $29.98, 9781435114524

22. Baseball: An Illustrated History
Geoffrey C. Ward, Knopf, $39.95, 9780375711978

23. Men at Work: The Craft of Baseball
George F. Will, Harper, $14.99, 9780061999819

24. Are We Winning?: Fathers and Sons in the New Golden Age of Baseball
Will Leitch, Hyperion, $24.99, 9781401323707

25. Fifty-Nine in ’84: Old Hoss Radbourn, Barehanded Baseball, and the Greatest Season a Pitcher Ever Had
Edward Achorn, Smithsonian, $25.99, 9780061825866