Moneyball by Michael Lewis

Moneyball, by Michael Lewis 5 CD Audio Book 2003

The art of winning an unfair game.

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In Moneyball Michael Lewis tells the story of how the Oakland Athletics, a small undervalued sports club, finds talented athletes on a small budget, and manage to win more regular season games than expected.
He explores the notion that professional baseball is becoming less of an athletic competition and more of a financial one. In 2002 the richest team, New York Yankees had a payroll of about 140 million dollars in contrast the Oakland A’s had about 47 million. Lewis tells the story of how talent scouts under the direction of Billy Beane, found a new way, the Harvard way, to find good players at bargain prices. Lewis in his entertaining style tells us about sabermetrics, the art of studying baseball data to find what looks like coal to be a diamond in the rough. Systematic scientific investigations of the sport lead the team to their bargains in talent. As the author states, “The story is about professional baseball and the people who play it. At its’ center is a man whose life was turned upside down by professional baseball, and who miraculously found a way to return the favor. Billy Beane”

”"One of the best baseball and baseball management books out....Deserves a place in the Baseball Hall of Fame."
-Forbes

Michael Lewis is an American author and financial journalist. His bestselling books include “The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine”, “Home Game: An Accidental Guide to Fatherhood.” , “Panic”, “The Real Price of Everything: Rediscovering the Six Classics of Economics”, “The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game”, “Liar's Poker” and more. He is also an editor to Vanity Fair magazine.