The October 2017 Indie Baseball Bestseller List

In celebration of the Major League Baseball postseason, here is the Indie Baseball Bestseller List, based on sales at independent bookstores nationwide for the eight-week period ending October 1, 2017.

1. Terror in the City of Champions: Murder, Baseball, and the Secret Society That Shocked Depression-Era Detroit
Tom Stanton, Lyons Press, $17.95, 9781493030583

2. Papi: My Story
David Ortiz, Michael Holley, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $28, 9780544814615

3. Moneyball
Michael Lewis, Norton, $15.95, 9780393338393

4. The Cubs Way: The Zen of Building the Best Team in Baseball and Breaking the Curse
Tom Verducci, Crown Archetype, $28, 9780804190015

5. Smart Baseball: The Story Behind the Old Stats That Are Ruining the Game, the New Ones That Are Running It, and the Right Way to Think
Keith Law, Morrow, $27.99, 9780062490223

6. The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports
Jeff Passan, Harper, $15.99, 9780062400376

7. The Cooperstown Casebook: Who’s in the Baseball Hall of Fame, Who Should Be In, and Who Should Pack Their Plaques
Jay Jaffe, Thomas Dunne Books, $25.99, 9781250071217

8. My Cubs: A Love Story
Scott Simon, Blue Rider, $23, 9780735218031

9. Dinner with DiMaggio: Memories of an American Hero
Rock Positano, John Positano, S&S, $26, 9781501156847

10. Off Speed: Baseball, Pitching, and the Art of Deception
Terry McDermott, Pantheon, $23.95, 9780307379429

11. Teammate: My Journey in Baseball and a World Series for the Ages
David Ross, Hachette, $28, 9780316559447

12. Electric October: Seven World Series Games, Six Lives, Five Minutes of Fame That Lasted Forever
Kevin Cook, Holt, $30, 9781250116567

13. Lost Ballparks
Dennis Evanosky, Eric J. Kos, Pavilion Books, $19.95, 9781911216490

14. Fail Better: Why Baseball Matters
Mark Kingwell, Biblioasis, $16.95, 9781771961530

15. Baseball’s Best 1,000: Rankings of the Greatest Players of All Time
Derek Gentile, Black Dog & Leventhal, $14.99, 9780316463874

16. This Old Man: All in Pieces
Roger Angell, Anchor, $16, 9781101971390

17. Dynastic, Bombastic, Fantastic: Reggie, Rollie, Catfish, and Charlie Finley’s Swingin’ A’s
Jason Turbow, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $26, 9780544303171

18. The Only Rule Is It Has to Work: Our Wild Experiment Building a New Kind of Baseball Team
Ben Lindbergh, Sam Miller, St. Martin’s Griffin, $15.99, 9781250130907

19. Ballplayer
Chipper Jones, Carroll Rogers Walton, Dutton Books, $27, 9781101984406

20. The Phenomenon: Pressure, the Yips, and the Pitch That Changed My Life
Rick Ankiel, Tim Brown, PublicAffairs, $27, 9781610396868

21. If These Walls Could Talk: San Francisco Giants: Stories from the San Francisco Giants Dugout, Locker Room, and Press Box
Chris Haft, Triumph Books, $16.95, 9781629373898

22. The Streak: Lou Gehrig, Cal Ripken Jr., and Baseball’s Most Historic Record
John Eisenberg, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $26, 9780544107670

23. The Last Innocents: The Collision of the Turbulent Sixties and the Los Angeles Dodgers
Michael Leahy, Harper, $16.99, 9780062360571

24. Casey Stengel: Baseball’s Greatest Character
Marty Appel, Doubleday Books, $27.95, 9780385540476

25. The Mental Game of Baseball: A Guide to Peak Performance
H.A. Dorfman, Karl Kuehl, Lyons Press, $18.95, 9781630761820