Moneyball : the art of winning an unfair game
Lewis, Michael (Michael M.)2004
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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.
Main title:
Moneyball : the art of winning an unfair game / Michael Lewis.
Author:
Lewis, Michael (Michael M.), author
Edition:
[New edition] / with a new afterword.
Imprint:
New York : W.W. Norton & Company, 2004.
Collation:
xv, 316 pages ; 21 cm
Notes:
Includes index.Originally printed in hardback: 2004. -- Reprinted in paperback with new afterword.Originally published: 2003.
ISBN:
9780393324815 (pbk)
Dewey class:
796.3570691A796.357796.357069796.35764
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
312497