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  1. Michael Lewis. 4.26. 135,366 ratings6,207 reviews. Billy Beane, general manager of MLB's Oakland A's and protagonist of Michael Lewis's Moneyball, had a problem: how to win in the Major Leagues with a budget that's smaller than that of nearly every other team. Conventional wisdom long held that big name, highly athletic hitters and young ...

  2. Sep 5, 2024 · Jazz, Gin, and Homicide: The Real Crimes Behind 'Chicago'. Uncover the true story behind 'Moneyball' and the 2002 Oakland Athletics' revolutionary approach to baseball. Learn how data analytics transformed team building and strategy, forever changing the game as portrayed in Michael Lewis's book and the hit film.

  3. There's a reason why Moneyball is routinely said to be a management classic, and routinely assigned reading in business schools. Because at the core of it, it isn't a baseball book, or statistics book, but a management book. That's why years after every single market inefficiency mentioned in the book has become outdated, Moneyball is still ...

  4. The central premise of Moneyball is that the collective wisdom of baseball insiders (including players, managers, coaches, scouts, and the front office) over the past century is outdated, subjective, and often flawed, and that the statistics traditionally used to gauge players, such as stolen bases, runs batted in, and batting average, are relics of a 19th-century view of the game. [1]

  5. Mar 31, 2016 · March 31, 2016 by Ric Merrifield Leave a Comment. By now, most people in business have heard of Moneyball, Michael Lewis’s 2003 book mostly about Billy Beane and the Oakland A’s 2002 season. Lewis also wrote The Big Short, the 2010 book which most people will tell you was about the banking collapse of 2009 and the devastating recession that ...

  6. Mar 28, 2014 · Lewis’ book is a cultural phenomenon for a reason: It takes America’s favorite pastime and tweaks it in a way that relies on strategy and logic, instead of just instinct. Finally, your team’s winning season stands a chance of being quantified for future replication. The feelings and emotions Moneyball generates are timeless, but the story ...

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  8. Michael Lewis’s instant classic may be “the most influential book on sports ever written” ( People ), but “you need know absolutely nothing about baseball to appreciate the wit, snap, economy and incisiveness of [Lewis’s] thoughts about it” (Janet Maslin, New York Times ). One of GQ 's 50 Best Books of Literary Journalism of the 21st Century , Moneyball, The Art of Winning an ...

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