The Indie October Baseball Bestseller List

Created 10/14/2008 - 11:00pm

With Major League Baseball's post-season in full-swing, we present the The Indie October Baseball Bestseller List, based on sales in independent bookstores nationwide for the eight-week period ending October 14, 2008.

1.	Watching Baseball Smarter: A Professional Fan's Guide for Beginners, Semi-Experts, and Deeply Serious Geeks Zack Hample, Vintage, $13.95, 9780307280329
2.	Moneyball Michael Lewis, Norton, $13.95, 9780393324815
3.	Living on the Black: Two Pitchers, Two Teams, One Season to Remember John Feinstein, Little Brown, $26.99, 9780316113915
4.	101 Reasons to Love the Red Sox David Green, Stewart, Tabori, & Chang, $14.95, 9781584797142
5.	Remembering Yankee Stadium: An Oral and Narrative History of the House That Ruth Built Harvey Frommer, Stewart, Tabori, & Chang, $45, 9781584797166
6.	Baseball's Best 1,000: Rankings of the Skills, the Achievements, and the Performance of the Greatest Players of All Time Derek Gentile, Black Dog & Leventhal, $14.95, 9781579127770
7.	Playing With the Enemy: A Baseball Prodigy, World War II, and the Long Journey Home Gary W. Moore, Penguin, $15, 9780143113881
8.	Red Sox Rule: Terry Francona and Boston's Rise to Dominance Michael Holley, HarperEntertainment, $25.95, 9780061458545
9.	Crazy '08: How a Cast of Cranks, Rogues, Boneheads, and Magnates Created the Greatest Year in Baseball History Cait Murphy, Collins, $14.95, 9780060889388
10.	Baseball Field Guide: An In-Depth Illustrated Guide to the Complete Rules of Baseball Dan Formosa, Paul Hamburger, Da Capo, $14, 9780306816536
11.	Yankee Stadium: A Tribute: 85 Years of Memories: 1923 - 2008 Les Krantz, HarperEntertainment, $29.95, 9780061438608
12.	101 Reasons to Love the Yankees Ron Green, Jr., Stewart, Tabori, & Chang, $14.95, 9781584797159
13.	Do You Know the Boston Red Sox? Guy Robinson, Sourcebooks, $5.95, 9781402214196
14.	Yankee for Life: My 40-Year Journey in Pinstripes Bobby Murcer, Harper, $24.95, 9780061473418
15.	Summer of '49 David Halberstam, Harper Perennial Modern Classics, $14.95, 9780060884260
16.	You Can Observe a Lot by Watching: What I've Learned About Teamwork From the Yankees and Life Yogi Berra, Wiley, $24.95, 9780470079928
17.	Ty and the Babe: Baseball's Fiercest Rivals Tom Stanton, Thomas Dunne, $14.95, 9780312382247
18.	Yankee Stadium: The Official Retrospective Mark Vancil, Alfred Santasiere, III, Pocket, $50, 9781416547792
19.	Big Papi: My Story of Big Dreams and Big Hits David Ortiz, St. Martin's Griffin, $14.95, 9780312383442
20.	The Echoing Green: The Untold Story of Bobby Thomson, Ralph Branca, and the Shot Heard Round the World Joshua Prager, Vintage, $15.95, 9780375713071
21.	Ballparks Then and Now Eric Enders, Thunder Bay, $10.95, 9781592237319
22.	Babe Ruth: Remembering the Bambino in Stories, Photos & Memorabilia Julia Ruth Stevens, Bill Gilbert, Stewart, Tabori, & Chang, $35, 9781584796978
23.	Baseball: A History of America's Favorite Game George Vecsey, Modern Library, $14, 9780812978704
24.	The Baseball Book Rob Fleder (Ed.), Sports Illustrated, $29.95, 9781933405230
25.	The Gashouse Gang: How Dizzy Dean, Leo Durocher, Branch Rickey, Pepper Martin, and Their Colorful, Come-From-Behind Ball Club Won the World Series -- and America's Heart John Heidenry, PublicAffairs, $14.95, 9781586485689