Moneyball : the art of winning an unfair game / Michael Lewis.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : W.W. Norton, [2011].Edition: 1st edDescription: xv, 317 p. ; 21 cmISBN:- 0393338398 (pbk.)
- 9780393338393 (pbk.)
- Money ball
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Adult Book | Main Library | NonFiction | 796.357 L675 | Available | 33111006817494 |
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.