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Moneyball : the art of winning an unfair game / Michael Lewis.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : W.W. Norton, [2011].Edition: 1st edDescription: xv, 317 p. ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 0393338398 (pbk.)
  • 9780393338393 (pbk.)
Other title:
  • Money ball
Subject(s):
Contents:
The curse of talent -- How to find a ballplayer -- The enlightenment -- Field of ignorance -- The Jeremy Brown blue plate special -- The science of winning an unfair game -- Giambi's hole -- Scott Hatteberg, pickin' machine -- The trading desk -- Anatomy of an undervalued pitcher -- The human element -- The speed of the idea -- The Badger -- Afterword: Inside baseball's religious war -- Epilogue: The badger.
Summary: Explains how Billy Beene, the general manager of the Oakland Athletics, is using a new kind of thinking to build a successful and winning baseball team without spending enormous sums of money.
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Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction 796.357 L675 Available 33111006817494
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

"You need know absolutely nothing about baseball to appreciate the wit, snap, economy . . . and incisiveness of [ Moneyball ]. Lewis has hit another one out of the park." --Janet Maslin, New York Times

Billy Beane, the Oakland A's general manager, is leading a revolution. Reinventing his team on a budget, he needs to outsmart the richer teams. He signs undervalued players whom the scouts consider flawed but who have a knack for getting on base, scoring runs, and winning games. Moneyball is a quest for the secret of success in baseball and a tale of the search for new baseball knowledge--insights that will give the little guy who is willing to discard old wisdom the edge over big money.

Film tie-in.

Includes afterword.

Includes index.

The curse of talent -- How to find a ballplayer -- The enlightenment -- Field of ignorance -- The Jeremy Brown blue plate special -- The science of winning an unfair game -- Giambi's hole -- Scott Hatteberg, pickin' machine -- The trading desk -- Anatomy of an undervalued pitcher -- The human element -- The speed of the idea -- The Badger -- Afterword: Inside baseball's religious war -- Epilogue: The badger.

Explains how Billy Beene, the general manager of the Oakland Athletics, is using a new kind of thinking to build a successful and winning baseball team without spending enormous sums of money.

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