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Moneyball - The Art of Winning an Unfair Game (Paperback)
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Moneyball - The Art of Winning an Unfair Game (Paperback)
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Loot Price R428
Discovery Miles 4 280
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Just before the 2002 season opens, the Oakland Athletics must
relinquish its three most prominent (and expensive) players and is
written off by just about everyone—but then comes roaring back to
challenge the American League record for consecutive wins. How did
one of the poorest teams in baseball win so many games? In a quest
to discover the answer, Michael Lewis delivers not only “the
single most influential baseball book ever” (Rob Neyer, Slate)
but also what “may be the best book ever written on business”
(Weekly Standard). Lewis first looks to all the logical
places—the front offices of major league teams, the coaches, the
minds of brilliant players—but discovers 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 numbers 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 had 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. He paid attention to those numbers?with the
second-lowest payroll in baseball at his disposal he had to?to
conduct an astonishing experiment in finding and fielding a team
that nobody else wanted. In a narrative full of fabulous characters
and brilliant excursions into the unexpected, Michael Lewis shows
us how and why the new baseball knowledge works. He also sets up a
sly and hilarious morality tale: Big Money, like Goliath, is always
supposed to win . . . how can we not cheer for David?
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