This is one of the best baseball books I have ever read, and that is saying something. Lewis’ focus is on Billy Bean, the GM of the Oakland Athletics. Because Oakland is a small-market team, Bean must use his brain to tease out the players who can help his team, at a reasonable cost. This makes him ...
Let me preface this review by saying that I am not a big baseball fan. I really enjoy football - baseball tends to bore me. So when Zack told me I had to read this book because he wanted to see the movie with me, I put it off for a very, very long time. So long that I barely finished it before th...