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Moneyball : The Art of Winning an Unfair Game

Lewis, Michael (Author)

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ISBN-10	0393057658
ISBN-13	9780393057652
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A story about money, science, entertainment, and egos, traces the remarkable success of the Oakland Athletics, a major league team with a minor league budget.

The Oakland Athletics have a secret: a winning baseball team is made, not bought. A story about money, science, entertainment, egos, "Moneyball" traces the remarkable success of the Oakland Athletics, a major league team with a minor league budget.

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"Moneyball is a quest for something as elusive as the Holy Grail, something that money apparently can't buy: the secret of success in baseball. The logical places to look would be the front offices of major league teams and the dugouts, perhaps even in the minds of the players themselves. Lewis mines all these possibilities - his intimate and original portraits of big league ballplayers are alone worth the price of admission - but the real jackpot is a cache of numbers - numbers! - collected over the years by a strange brotherhood of amateur baseball enthusiasts: software engineers, statisticians, Wall Street analysts, lawyers, and physics professors." "What these geek numbers show - no, prove - is that the traditional yardsticks of success for players and teams are fatally flawed. Even the box score misleads us by ignoring the crucial importance of the humble base on balls. This information has been around for years, and nobody inside Major League Baseball paid it any mind. And then came Billy Beane, general manager of the Oakland Athletics." "Billy paid attention to those numbers - with the second-lowest payroll in baseball at his disposal he had to - and this book records his astonishing experiment in finding and fielding a team that nobody else wanted. Moneyball is a roller coaster ride : before the 2002 season opens, Oakland must relinquish its three most prominent (and expensive) players, is written off by just about everyone, and comes roaring back to challenge the American League record for consecutive wins."--BOOK JACKET. Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

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Edition : 2003	Product Dimensions: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.00" tall
Publisher: Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.	Weight: 1.23 lbs.
Binding: Trade Cloth
Number of Pages 288
Language: English

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Moneyball : The Art of Winning an Unfair Game

Lewis, Michael (Author)

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