The Book Sense 2003 Baseball Season Bestseller List

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Based on reporting from well over 400 independent bookstores across the U.S. during the period March 1, 2003, to October 12, 2003.

Thanks to all the stores that report!

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The Book Sense 2003 Baseball Season Bestseller List
1. The Teammates
David Halberstam, Hyperion, $22.95, 140130057X
2. Moneyball
Michael Lewis, Norton, $24.95, 0393057658
3. Triumph and Tragedy in Mudville
Stephen Jay Gould, Norton, $24.95, 0393057550
4. Sandy Koufax
Jane Leavy, HarperCollins, $23.95, 0060195339
5. Game Time: A Baseball Companion
Roger Angell, Harcourt, $25, 0151008248
6. Me and My Dad: A Baseball Memoir
Paul O'Neill with Burton Rocks, Morrow, $25.95, 0060524057
7. Perfect I'm Not: Boomer on Beer, Brawls, Backaches, and Baseball
David Wells with Chris Kreski, Morrow, $25.95, 0060508248
8. When You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It!: Inspiration and Wisdom From One of Baseball's Greatest Heros
Yogi Berra with Dave Kaplan, Hyperion, $11, 0786887443
9. The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract
Bill James, Free Press, $25, 0743227220
10. October Men: Reggie Jackson, George Steinbrenner, Billy Martin, and the Yankees' Miraculous Finish in 1978
Roger Kahn, Harcourt, $25, 0151006288
11. The Yogi Book: "I Really Didn't Say Everything I Said!"
Yogi Berra, Workman, $8.95, 0761110909
12. What Time Is It? You Mean Now?: Advice for Life From the Zennest Master of Them All
Yogi Berra with Dave Kaplan, S&S, $11, 0743244532
13. The New York Yankees: One Hundred Years -- The Official Retrospective
Rare Air Ltd., Ballantine, $50, 0345460901
14. The Long Ball: The Summer of '75 -- Spaceman, Catfish, Charlie Hustle, and the Greatest World Series Ever Played
Tom Adelman, Little Brown, $24.95, 0316068993
15. Impossible Dreams: A Red Sox Collection
Glenn Stout (Ed.), Mariner, $13, 0618303987
16. The Last Good Season: Brooklyn, the Dodgers, and Their Final Pennant Race Together
Michael Shapiro, Doubleday, $24.95, 0385501528
17. Chicken Soup for the Baseball Fan's Soul: Inspirational Stories of Baseball, Big-League Dreams, and the Game of Life
Jack Canfield, et al., HCI, $12.95, 1558749659
18. Why Is the Foul Pole Fair? (Or, Answers to the Baseball Questions Your Dad Hoped You Wouldn't Ask)
Vince Staten, S&S, $21, 0743233840
19. Rob Neyer's Big Book of Baseball Lineups: A Complete Guide to the Best, Worst, and Most Memorable Players to Ever Grace the Major Leagues
Rob Neyer, Fireside, $16, 0743241746
20. Ten Rings: My Championship Seasons
Yogi Berra with Dave Kaplan, Morrow, $24.95, 0060513810
21. The Road to Cooperstown: A Father, Two Sons, and the Journey of a Lifetime
Tom Stanton, Thomas Dunne, $24.95, 0312303505
22. Summer of '49
David Halberstam, Perennial, $13.95, 0060007818
23. When Boston Won the World Series: A Chronicle of Boston's Remarkable Victory in the First Modern World Series of 1903
Bob Ryan, Running Press, $18.95, 0762414669
24. Pride of October: What It Was to Be Young and a Yankee
Bill Madden, Warner, $24.95, 044652932X
25. The Sports Encyclopedia: Baseball 2003
David S. Neft, St. Martin's Press, $22.95, 0312304781
26. Sometimes You See It Coming
Kevin Baker, Perennial, $12.95, 0060535970
27. Glove Affairs: The Romance, History, and Tradition of the Baseball Glove
Noah Liberman, Triumph, $19.95, 1572434201
28.

Baseball's Book of Firsts
Lloyd Johnson, Running Press, $19.98, 0762414871
29. Take Me Out to the Ballpark: An Illustrated Tour of Baseball Parks Past and Present
Josh Leventhal, Black Dog & Leventhal, $29.95, 1579121128
30. Diamonds Are Forever: Artists and Writers on Baseball
Smithsonian Institute (Ed.), Chronicle, $19.95, 0811836630
31. Out of Left Field: How the Mariners Made Baseball Fly in Seattle
Art Thiel, Sasquatch, $22.95, 1570613907
32. Classic Baseball Stories: Twenty-two Legendary Stories From the Diamond
Jeff Silverman (Ed.), Lyons, $9.95, 1585747637
33. The Boys of Summer
Roger Kahn, Perennial, $15, 0060956348
34. Clearing the Bases: The Greatest Baseball Debates of the Last Century
Allen Barra, St. Martin's, $13.95, 0312302533
35. Play by Play: Baseball, Radio, and Life in the Last Chance League
Neal Conan, Three Rivers, $12, 1400046807
36. The Final Season: Fathers, Sons, and One Last Season in a Classic American Ballpark
Tom Stanton, St. Martin's, $12.95, 0312291566
37. Little League's Official How-to-Play Baseball Book
Peter Kreutzer, Broadway, $11.95, 0767914155
38. Baseball America Almanac
Allan Simpson (Ed.), Baseball America, $15.95, 0684019299
39. Baseball Top 10
James Buckley, Jr., DK, $9.95, 0789485060
40. Indian Summer: The Forgotten Story of Louis Francis Sockalexis, the First Native American in Major League Baseball
Brian McDonald, Rodale, $21.95, 1579545874
41. The Little Red (Sox) Book: A Revisionist Red Sox History
Bill Lee with Jim Prime, Triumph, $19.95, 1572435275
42. Autumn Glory: Baseball's First World Series
Louis P. Masur, Hill & Wang, $23, 0809027631
43. The Boys of October: How the 1975 Boston Red Sox Embodied Baseball's Ideals and Restored Our Spirits
Doug Hornig, McGraw-Hill, $24.95, 0071402470
44. Official Baseball Rules
Sporting News (Ed.), McGraw-Hill, $7.95, 089204702X
45. Randy Johnson's Power Pitching: The Big Unit's Secrets to Domination, Intimidation, and Winning
Randy Johnson with Jim Rosenthal, Three Rivers, $14.95, 1400047390
46. Baseball Register: Every Player, Every Stat!
David Walton (Ed.), McGraw-Hill, $17.95, 0892046996
47. Jackie Robinson and the Integration of Baseball
Scott Simon, John Wiley, $19.95, 047126153X
48. The Life You Imagine: Life Lessons for Achieving Your Dreams
Derek Jeter with Jack Curry, Three Rivers, $12, 0609807188
49. Joe DiMaggio: The Hero's Life
Richard Ben Cramer, S&S, $16, 0684865475
50. The Cool Chick's Guide to Baseball
Lisa Martin, Gibbs Smith, $8.95, 1586852590
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