Moneyball : the art of winning an unfair game

By:

Lewis, Michael

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York W.W.Norton & Company 2004Description: xv,317pISBN:

9780393324815(pbk.)

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

796.3570691 LEW

Summary: "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? ..."

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Plaksha University Library	Art & Architecture	796.3570691 LEW (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		004348

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"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? ..."

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