Who’s on First?
Two sports books in the headlines this week are predicted to be losers:
- NPR, Are Readers Tired Of Sports Doping Books? (on Bases Loaded by Kirk Radomski)
- Fox Sports, “Rocky Racoon’s Blog,” 7 Huge Reasons Torre’s Book Will Fail
Who has it right? It looks like NPR is the best predictor; Amazon shows the just-released Radomski book at #952, while the Torre book is at #6 even though it isn’t available yet.
Library hold patterns in four large library systems also back up NPR:
- Torre — total of 46 copies on order, with 144 holds
- Radomski — total of 46 copies on order, with 9 holds
(Yes, that’s right, the total copies add up to exactly the same number, even though the individual libraries ordered different quantities of each title.)