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020 _a9780393324815(pbk.)
082 _a796.3570691
_bLEW
100 _aLewis, Michael
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245 _aMoneyball :
_b the art of winning an unfair game
260 _aNew York
_bW.W.Norton & Company
_c2004
300 _axv,317p.
500 _ahttps://wwnorton.com/books/9780393324815
520 _a"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? ..."
650 _aBaseball--Economic aspects
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650 _aBaseball players--Salaries
_99919
650 _aEconomics
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942 _cBK
999 _c9668
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