Moneyball

Michael Lewis

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 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 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.

Author(s): Lewis, Michael
Binding: Paperback
Date of Publication: 13/07/2004
Pagination: 336 pages
Series: N/A
Imprint: W.W. Norton and Company
Published By: W.W. Norton and Company
Book Classification: Personal finance
Dimensions: 211x140x23
Weight: 261
ISBN13\EAN\SKU: 9780393324815