October 17, 2003 PLAY BALL! Book Sense Announces New Bestseller List For Baseball Books FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE… Contact: Kristen Gilligan Manager of Communications, Industry Relations and Trade Practice 914-591-2665, x 1286 [email protected] ~ Book Sense captures latest craze in a reading list ~ October 17, 2003 (Tarrytown, NY) --Just in time for the 2003 World Series, Book Sense announces its Book Sense Baseball 2003 Season Bestseller List. ABA's CEO, Avin Mark Domnitz, passionately proclaims, "The 2003 Post-Season Championship Series in both the American League and the National League has been one of the most exciting, bizarre, and electrifying athletic and cultural events in history. Because of the games themselves and the participants in them, record public interest has been generated. Books, as always, have become an important part of this public mania. The variety of books on the history, the players, the teams, and the business attest to the public fascination of all things baseball." Please contact Kristen Gilligan at [email protected] for reprint guidelines. THE BOOK SENSE 2003 BASEBALL SEASON BESTSELLER LIST Based on reporting from well over 400 independent bookstores across the U.S. during the period March 1, 2003 to October 12, 2003 The Teammates David Halberstam, Hyperion, $22.95, 140130057X Moneyball Michael Lewis, Norton, $24.95, 0393057658 Triumph and Tragedy in Mudville Stephen Jay Gould, Norton, $24.95, 0393057550 Sandy Koufax Jane Leavy, HarperCollins, $23.95, 0060195339 Game Time: A Baseball Companion Roger Angell, Harcourt, $25, 0151008248 Me and My Dad: A Baseball Memoir Paul O'Neill with Burton Rocks, Morrow, $25.95, 0060524057 Perfect I'm Not: Boomer on Beer, Brawls, Backaches, and Baseball David Wells with Chris Kreski, Morrow, $25.95, 0060508248 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 The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract Bill James, Free Press, $25, 0743227220 October Men: Reggie Jackson, George Steinbrenner, Billy Martin, and the Yankees' Miraculous Finish in 1978 Roger Kahn, Harcourt, $25, 0151006288 The Yogi Book: "I Really Didn't Say Everything I Said!" Yogi Berra, Workman, $8.95, 0761110909 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 The New York Yankees: One Hundred Years: The Official Retrospective Rare Air Ltd., Ballantine, $50, 0345460901 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 Impossible Dreams: A Red Sox Collection Glenn Stout (Ed.), Mariner, $13, 0618303987 The Last Good Season: Brooklyn, the Dodgers, and Their Final Pennant Race Together Michael Shapiro, Doubleday, $24.95, 0385501528 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 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 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 Ten Rings: My Championship Seasons Yogi Berra with Dave Kaplan, Morrow, $24.95, 0060513810 The Road to Cooperstown: A Father, Two Sons, and the Journey of a Lifetime Tom Stanton, Thomas Dunne, $24.95, 0312303505 Summer of '49 David Halberstam, Perennial, $13.95, 0060007818 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 Pride of October: What It Was to Be Young and a Yankee Bill Madden, Warner, $24.95, 044652932X The Sports Encyclopedia: Baseball 2003 David S. Neft, St. Martin's Press, $22.95, 0312304781 Sometimes You See It Coming Kevin Baker, Perennial, $12.95, 0060535970 Glove Affairs: The Romance, History, and Tradition of the Baseball Glove Noah Liberman, Triumph, $19.95, 1572434201 Baseball's Book of Firsts Lloyd Johnson, Running Press, $19.98, 0762414871 Take Me Out to the Ballpark: An Illustrated Tour of Baseball Parks Past and Present Josh Leventhal, Black Dog & Leventhal, $29.95, 1579121128 Diamonds Are Forever: Artists and Writers on Baseball Smithsonian Institute (Ed.), Chronicle, $19.95, 0811836630 Out of Left Field: How the Mariners Made Baseball Fly in Seattle Art Thiel, Sasquatch, $22.95, 1570613907 Classic Baseball Stories: Twenty-Two Legendary Stories from the Diamond Jeff Silverman (Ed.), Lyons, $9.95, 1585747637 The Boys of Summer Roger Kahn, Perennial, $15, 0060956348 Clearing the Bases: The Greatest Baseball Debates of the Last Century Allen Barra, St. Martin's, $13.95, 0312302533 Play by Play: Baseball, Radio, and Life in the Last Chance League Neal Conan, Three Rivers, $12, 1400046807 The Final Season: Fathers, Sons, and One Last Season in a Classic American Ballpark Tom Stanton, St. Martin's, $12.95, 0312291566 Little League's Official How-To-Play Baseball Book Peter Kreutzer, Broadway, $11.95, 0767914155 Baseball America Almanac Allan Simpson (Ed.), Baseball America, $15.95, 0684019299 Baseball Top 10 James Buckley, Jr., DK, $9.95, 0789485060 Indian Summer: The Forgotten Story of Louis Francis Sockalexis, the First Native American in Major League Baseball Brian McDonald, Rodale, $21.95, 1579545874 The Little Red (Sox) Book: A Revisionist Red Sox History Bill Lee with Jim Prime, Triumph, $19.95, 1572435275 Autumn Glory: Baseball's First World Series Louis P. Masur, Hill & Wang, $23, 0809027631 The Boys of October: How the 1975 Boston Red Sox Embodies Baseball's Ideals and Restored Our Spirits Doug Hornig, McGraw-Hill, $24.95, 0071402470 Official Baseball Rules Sporting News (Ed.), McGraw-Hill, $7.95, 089204702X 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 Baseball Register: Every Player, Every Stat! David Walton (Ed.), McGraw-Hill, $17.95, 0892046996 Jackie Robinson and the Integration of Baseball Scott Simon, John Wiley, $19.95, 047126153X The Life You Imagine: Life Lessons for Achieving Your Dreams Derek Jeter with Jack Curry, Three Rivers, $12, 0609807188 Joe Dimaggio: The Hero's Life Richard Ben Cramer, S&S, $16, 0684865475 The Cool Chick's Guide to Baseball Lisa Martin, Gibbs Smith, $8.95, 1586852590 Book Sense Bestseller Lists The Book Sense Bestseller Lists are gathered from about 450 independent bookstores nationwide and are carried in over 100 local and national newspapers, magazines, websites TV and radio outlets. They are the most timely bestseller lists out there as data is collected up through close of business on Sunday, and turned around for distribution on that very next Tuesday. “The independent bookstores, via Book Sense, are the first to provide the public and the media with timely bestseller lists. These lists represent the books that people are actually buying across the country at this moment,” explains Mark Nichols, Book Sense Marketing Director, “They provide a fascinating snapshot of trends, as well as serving the practical purpose of being a great shopping and gift-buying resource.” Book Sense A wholly-owned subsidiary of the American Booksellers Association, BSI administers the Book Sense integrated marketing and branding campaign. Book Sense, comprised of 1,200 bookstore locations in 50 states, seeks to build a national identity for independent bookstores while celebrating the unique character of each store; to create awareness of independent booksellers across the country; and to underscore the collective strength of independent booksellers to consumers. Book Sense includes the Book Sense 76, the Book Sense Bestseller Lists, a national gift card/certificate program, and www.BookSense.com. ###