![]() The humane side of professional baseball is a wonderful tale, set against the ruthless backdrop of money, professional sport, a 100 year old method of using baseball scouts alone to find talent and how to trade players.īilly set out to prove to baseball that good players were being ignored by the major leagues and their scouts. For me, the best sections told how Beane and his statistician, Paul DePodesta, identified low-salaried but promising players and gave them a job, a team and hope. There are plenty of mathematical formulas in the book explaining the arcane science of saber-metrics, but also many pages devoted to the backgrounds of other players. It is about Beane’s small budget to buy players for the next season and his decision to use baseball statistics (a field called saber-metrics) to identify players overlooked by the bigger and richer teams. It’s a multi-faceted book, exploring the life and career of Billy Beane, a former Major League player and General Manager of the Oakland A’s team. Author Michael Lewis, who also wrote The Blind Side, which became another Academy Award winning film, wrote Moneyball in 2003. However, after the film based on the novel was nominated for six Academy Awards in 2012, I thought there had to be some substance to the plot, and commenced reading.įor a book about baseball and statistics, it’s a fascinating read. It was not a general interest in American baseball that prompted me to borrow Moneyball by Michael Lewis. ![]()
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