Moneyball
The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
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Moneyball is the story of a small group of undervalued professional baseball players and executives who turned themselves into one of the most successful franchises in Major League Baseball: the Oakland Athletics. Michael Lewis explains how they found success in the most unlikely of places: a cache of numbers collected over the years by a strange brotherhood of amateur baseball enthusiasts. In a narrative full of fabulous characters and brilliant excursions into the unexpected, Lewis shows us how and why the new baseball knowledge works.
About this Author
Michael Lewis is the best-selling author of Liar's Poker, Moneyball, The Blind Side, The Big Short, The Undoing Project, and The Fifth Risk. He lives in Berkeley, California, with his family.
Format: Trade paperback
Pages: 336
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2004-03-17
Reviews
"The best book of the year, [Moneyball] already feels like the most influential book on sports ever written. If you're a baseball fan, Moneyball is a must."
"Lewis has hit another one out of the park...You need know absolutely nothing about baseball to appreciate the wit, snap, economy and incisiveness of [Lewis's] thoughts about it."
"Moneyball is the best business book Lewis has written. It may be the best business book anyone has written."
"By playing Boswell to Beane's Samuel Johnson, Lewis has given us one of the most enjoyable baseball books in years."
"It's a sports story that's actually a business story that's also a story about preconceptions. Plus, Michael Lewis's writing is so clear, readable, and highly entertaining."
"Ebullient, invigorating...Provides plenty of action, both numerical and athletic, on the field and in the draft-day war room."
"A journalistic tour de force."
"Michael Lewis's beautiful obsession with the idea of value has once again yielded gold...Moneyball explains baseball's startling new insight; that for all our dreams of blasts to the bleachers, the sport's hidden glory lies in not getting out."
"I understood about one in four words of Moneyball, and it's still the best and most engrossing sports book I've read in years. If you know anything about baseball, you will enjoy it four times as much as I did, which means that you might explode."
"Rarely has the lesson of a book...had such an enormous impact....[Moneyball] showcase[s] Lewis's great gift of finding the perfect characters and narratives to animate big, complex ideas that have been hiding in plain sight."
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