$24.49
Author: Lewis Michael
Brand: W. W. Norton & Company
Edition: 1st
Features:
Number Of Pages: 336
Details: From The New Yorker
The Oakland Athletics have reached the post-season playoffs three years in a row, even though they spend just one dollar for every three that the New York Yankees spend. Their secret, as Lewis’s lively account demonstrates, is not on the field but in the front office, in the shape of the general manager, Billy Beane. Unable to afford the star hires of his big-spending rivals, Beane disdains the received wisdom about what makes a player valuable, and has a passion for neglected statistics that reveal how runs are really scored. Beane’s ideas are beginning to attract disciples, most notably at the Boston Red Sox, who nearly lured him away from Oakland over the winter. At the last moment, Beane’s loyalty got the better of him; besides, moving to a team with a much larger payroll would have diminished the challenge.
Copyright © 2005 The New Yorker
Product Description
“This delightfully written, lesson-laden book deserves a place of its own in the Baseball Hall of Fame.” ―Forbes
Moneyball is a quest for the secret of success in baseball. In a narrative full of fabulous characters and brilliant excursions into the unexpected, Michael Lewis follows the low-budget Oakland A’s, visionary general manager Billy Beane, and the strange brotherhood of amateur baseball theorists. They are all in search of new baseball knowledge―insights that will give the little guy who is willing to discard old wisdom the edge over big money.
Review
“The best book of the year, [Moneyball] already feels like the most influential book on sports ever written. If you’re a baseball fan, Moneyball is a must.”
― People
“Lewis has hit another one out of the park…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
“Moneyball is the best business book Lewis has written. It may be the best business book anyone has written.”
― Mark Gerson, Weekly Standard
“By playing Boswell to Beane’s Samuel Johnson, Lewis has given us one of the most enjoyable baseball books in years.”
― Lawrence S. Ritter, New York Times Book Review
“It’s a sports story that’s actually a business story that’s also a story about preconceptions. Plus, Michael Lewis’s writing is so clear, readable, and highly entertaining.”
― Charles Yu, Literary Hub
“Ebullient, invigorating…Provides plenty of action, both numerical and athletic, on the field and in the draft-day war room.”
― Lev Grossman, Time
“A journalistic tour de force.”
― Richard J. Tofel, Wall Street Journal
“Michael Lewis’s beautiful obsession with the idea of value has once again yielded gold…Moneyball explains baseball’s startling new insight; that for all our dreams of blasts to the bleachers, the sport’s hidden glory lies in not getting out.”
― Garry Trudeau
“I understood about one in four words of Moneyball, and it’s still the best and most engrossing sports book I’ve read in years. If you know anything about baseball, you will enjoy it four times as much as I did, which means that you might explode.”
― Nick Hornby, The Believer
“Rarely has the lesson of a book…had such an enormous impact….[Moneyball] showcase[s] Lewis’s great gift of finding the perfect characters and narratives to animate big, complex ideas that have been hiding in plain sight.”
― Daniel Riley, GQ
About the Author
Michael Lewis is the best-selling author of Liar’s Poker, Moneyball, The Blind Side, The Big Short, The Undoing Project, and The Fifth Risk. He lives in Berkeley, California, with his wife and three children.
UPC: 352749455567
Release Date: 17-03-2004
Package Dimensions: 27x211x270
