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History (Baseball, Kindle eBooks): Amazon KDP category data
Amazon Kindle eBooks Best Sellers data for History (Baseball, Kindle eBooks), updated Nov 3, 2026: median price $9.48, median 299 reviews, average rating 4.5 and a KDPTop opportunity score of 24/100 (highly competitive).
| Price range (middle 50%) | $3.99 – $12.07 |
|---|---|
| Average rating | 4.5 |
| New releases (90 days) | 6% |
| Books on the list | 99 |
| Store | Kindle eBooks |
What stands out
- Its review barrier is higher than in 74% of Kindle eBooks categories: the median best seller has 299 reviews, so new books need time to build up.
- Prices spread wide: the middle half runs from $3.99 to $12.07, so budget editions and premium or boxed sets sell side by side.
Top 10 History best sellers
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The Mosquito Bowl: A Game of Life and Death in World War II — A WWII Story Set in the Pacific Theater
- List rank#1
- Price$16.99
- Rating4.3
- Reviews1,305
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David Halberstam on Sports: Summer of '49, October 1964, The Amateurs, Playing for Keeps
- List rank#2
- Price$3.99
- Rating4.5
- Reviews52
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Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
- List rank#3
- Price$8.70
- Rating4.6
- Reviews7,518
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The Wingmen: The Unlikely, Unusual, Unbreakable Friendship Between John Glenn and Ted Williams
by Adam Lazarus
- List rank#4
- Price$10.40
- Rating4.4
- Reviews1,855
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Major Leagues: The Formation, Sometimes Absorption and Mostly Inevitable Demise of 18 Professional Baseball Organizations, 1871 to Present
by David Pietrusza
- List rank#5
- Price$0.99
- Rating4.4
- Reviews8
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The Last Innocents: The Collision of the Turbulent Sixties and the Los Angeles Dodgers
by Michael Leahy
- List rank#6
- Price$8.99
- Rating4.6
- Reviews431
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Living on the Black: Two Pitchers, Two Teams, One Season to Remember
- List rank#7
- Price$1.99
- Rating4.3
- Reviews184
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Pinstripe Empire: The New York Yankees from Before the Babe to After the Boss
by Marty Appel
- List rank#8
- Price$2.99
- Rating4.6
- Reviews336
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The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports
by Jeff Passan
- List rank#9
- Price$3.99
- Rating4.5
- Reviews1,414
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The Machine: A Hot Team, a Legendary Season, and a Heart-stopping World Series: The Story of the 1975 Cincinnati Reds
- List rank#10
- Price$12.15
- Rating4.6
- Reviews562
FAQ
Is History a good niche for Amazon KDP?
Its KDPTop opportunity score is 24/100, which makes it highly competitive. The median best seller has 299 reviews and sells for $9.48.
How many reviews do you need to rank in History?
The median best seller has 299 reviews, and 30% of them have fewer than 100.
What do History best sellers cost?
The median price is $9.48; half of the best sellers are priced between $3.99 and $12.07.
Can new books break into History?
6% of the current best sellers were released in the last 90 days.
About this data
Data comes from KDPTop's daily crawl of Amazon's public Best Sellers pages; medians use the latest list. The opportunity score (0–100, higher is easier to enter) combines the review barrier, the share of low-review books, list turnover, new-release share and price.