Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver A.J. Brown has helped turn a book into the hottest seller on Amazon, writes Dan Gelston for AP News.
During the Eagles’ Wildcard Round game against the Green Bay Packers, Brown was seen on the sidelines reading a copy of Inner Excellence by self-help author Jim Murphy.
As a result, the book became Amazon’s No. 1 best seller overnight as of Monday morning, the day after the Eagles playoff game.
Murphy was pleasantly surprised to learn how successful his book has become.
“I was not expecting that. A real gift,” Murphy told AP News by phone. “I just looked at Amazon last night and it got to No. 1, so that was a surprise. It had probably never been higher than probably 8 or 9,000. In the thousands, somewhere.”
In reality, the book had actually ranked much lower, at 523,497th.
Murphy is a former minor league outfielder with the Chicago Cubs who became intrigued by learning how to teach baseball players how to have confidence under pressure.
That became the catalyst for writing and publishing the Inner Excellence book.
Read more about how A.J. Brown helped propel a book toward becoming a best seller in AP News.
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