Moneyball
by:
Michael Lewis (author)
“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 TimesBilly Beane, the Oakland A’s general manager, is leading a revolution. Reinventing his team on a...
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“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 TimesBilly 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.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780393338393 (0393338398)
Publish date: August 15th 2011
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Pages no: 317
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Biography,
Writing,
History,
Book Club,
Science,
Business,
Economics,
Journalism,
Sports And Games,
Sports,
Baseball
This was a fun read for those baseball fans that are bewildered by how baseball teams build and manage said teams. My husband enjoys watching the Oakland A's, which is the subject of this book; but like other Lewis' works, this one is more about the culture and industry than just the this one team. ...
Michael Lewis' Moneyball is a rousing David and Goliath story about an underdog Major League Baseball team that takes a data-driven approach to buying and selling baseball players, and ends up winning many more games each season than their much richer counterparts. At times the writing itself feels ...
I love this story. I like any story where somebody has the courage to implement a better idea and then WINS. Yay!! Love Michael Lewis.
Fascinating subject, somewhat undercut by Lewis being annoying.