Moneyball : the art of winning an unfair game
Lewis, Michael
Moneyball : the art of winning an unfair game - New York W.W.Norton & Company 2004 - xv,317p.
https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393324815
"Michael Lewis’s instant classic may be “the most influential book on sports ever written” (People), but “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).
One of GQ's 50 Best Books of Literary Journalism of the 21st Century
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? ..."
9780393324815(pbk.)
Baseball--Economic aspects
Baseball players--Salaries
Economics
796.3570691 / LEW
Moneyball : the art of winning an unfair game - New York W.W.Norton & Company 2004 - xv,317p.
https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393324815
"Michael Lewis’s instant classic may be “the most influential book on sports ever written” (People), but “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).
One of GQ's 50 Best Books of Literary Journalism of the 21st Century
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? ..."
9780393324815(pbk.)
Baseball--Economic aspects
Baseball players--Salaries
Economics
796.3570691 / LEW